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Defence at dawn

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A remarkable example has been discovered of a plant tuning its immune defence against a pathogen. The tuning consists of maximal expression of the relevant genes at the time of day when attack is most likely. See Letter p.110

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Figure 1: Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis in spore-production mode.

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  1. C. Robertson McClung is in the Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA. c.robertson.mcclung@dartmouth.edu,

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