Horticultural Hijacking
Article One
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120921111038.htm
This article is important in Environmental Biology becauseit deals with bacteria and plants immune systems. Basically plants and bacteriafound in soil are both fighting for control over the plants immune system. Asmentioned in the article, the bacteria we view as beneficial does not alwayswork towards helping the plants. If this bacterium was to win the battle andgain control over the plants immune system there is always the possibility thatthe bacteria will not work towards helping the plant but instead work towardsharming it. If the bacterium does work towards harming the plants it can makethe plants immune system very weak. If the plants immune system becomes weakerit will become more prone to diseases and other harmful bacteria. If thishappens it will cause major problems in ecosystems. If the plants becomeinfected with diseases and/or harmful bacteria this will cause the populationof the plants to decrease causing the bugs and animals that eat these plants tocompete for those plants that are left which will then decrease that populationand eventually decrease the population of living things that eat those bugs andanimals that eat the plants and so on. Also, if these plants become infectedwith disease and/or harmful bacteria the living things that eat these plantswill also become infected with the same diseases and/or bacteria because theyate the infected plants. Once these living things that ate the infected plantsare infected they will began to die off causing their population to decrease butbefore it does decrease these living things can pass these disease and/or harmfulbacteria on to other members of their species as well as their predators whichwill also affect those populations. Either way if the bacteria wins this battleand does not work in a beneficial way to these plants food chains andecosystems that have these infected plants will be at risk which will cause amajor problem throughout certain regions, if not the whole country.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120921111038.htm
This article is important in Environmental Biology becauseit deals with bacteria and plants immune systems. Basically plants and bacteriafound in soil are both fighting for control over the plants immune system. Asmentioned in the article, the bacteria we view as beneficial does not alwayswork towards helping the plants. If this bacterium was to win the battle andgain control over the plants immune system there is always the possibility thatthe bacteria will not work towards helping the plant but instead work towardsharming it. If the bacterium does work towards harming the plants it can makethe plants immune system very weak. If the plants immune system becomes weakerit will become more prone to diseases and other harmful bacteria. If thishappens it will cause major problems in ecosystems. If the plants becomeinfected with diseases and/or harmful bacteria this will cause the populationof the plants to decrease causing the bugs and animals that eat these plants tocompete for those plants that are left which will then decrease that populationand eventually decrease the population of living things that eat those bugs andanimals that eat the plants and so on. Also, if these plants become infectedwith disease and/or harmful bacteria the living things that eat these plantswill also become infected with the same diseases and/or bacteria because theyate the infected plants. Once these living things that ate the infected plantsare infected they will began to die off causing their population to decrease butbefore it does decrease these living things can pass these disease and/or harmfulbacteria on to other members of their species as well as their predators whichwill also affect those populations. Either way if the bacteria wins this battleand does not work in a beneficial way to these plants food chains andecosystems that have these infected plants will be at risk which will cause amajor problem throughout certain regions, if not the whole country.
