<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/news/how-a-plant-cells-skeleton-helps-fight-infection.aspx" dsn="blogs"><homehero>true</homehero><pubDate>12/04/2020</pubDate><title>How a plant cell's skeleton helps fight infection</title><description>A new study from Michigan State University identifies a missing link which controls plant immunity and plants' ability to maintain their cytoskeleton – the frame that both gives plant cells their shape and that serves as a highway for materials to move inside these cells.</description><author>Actin filaments, seen under a microscope,</author><hero-image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2020/ADF4%202SD-2-3DAnimation-_C001A0.jpg" alt="Actin filaments, seen under a microscope"/></hero-image><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2020/ADF4%202SD-2-3DAnimation-_C001A0sq.jpg" alt="Actin filaments, seen under a microscope"/></image><tags><tag>research</tag></tags></item>