ra3_14 OP t1_isn6xb2 wrote on October 17, 2022 at 6:11 AM Reply to comment by Eomycota in How does vaccinating trees work? by ra3_14 Ah that makes sense. It's still interesting that you have to inject a bactericide or fungicide for it to spread well. I found this article and assumed that it was a vaccine, but actually reading it, it seems more like what you described. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16021641-100-a-jab-for-trees/ So compared to vaccines where your body would generate the antibodies. This is kinda like just placing antibodies everywhere inside the tree, with the tree being passive in all this? Permalink Parent 5
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ra3_14 OP t1_isn6xb2 wrote
Reply to comment by Eomycota in How does vaccinating trees work? by ra3_14
Ah that makes sense. It's still interesting that you have to inject a bactericide or fungicide for it to spread well.
I found this article and assumed that it was a vaccine, but actually reading it, it seems more like what you described.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16021641-100-a-jab-for-trees/
So compared to vaccines where your body would generate the antibodies. This is kinda like just placing antibodies everywhere inside the tree, with the tree being passive in all this?