Prion-like proteins found in mustard plant

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 09:00 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, all in Massachusetts has found a prion-like protein in Arabidopsis thaliana, a flowering mustard plant. The group has published a paper describing their experiments and results in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.

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