line of defense

Line of defense

Defense system (11)
Line of defense (11)

Synopsis: 9. security & defence: Army & fights: Defense: Line of defense:

impactlab_2011 02621.txt

At this point, President Obama is the last line of defense. Hes the only one who can immediately prevent GE alfalfa from being planted this year.

Nature 02082.txt

science and technology should be Egypt's first line of defence (see Editorial, page 306). Valuable treasures did not survive the revolution unscathed;

ScienceDaily_2013 05219.txt

and their first line of defense against environmental stressors is the foraging bees themselves. High concentrations of Se will not kill foragers outright so they can continue to collect contaminated pollen and nectar

ScienceDaily_2013 06771.txt

In addition to this first-line of defense Zhu's team discovered that bedbugs have developed a second layer of protection.

ScienceDaily_2013 10237.txt

As a first line of defense wheat breeders and researchers began looking for resistance genes among those that had already been discovered in the existing germplasm repositories he said.

ScienceDaily_2013 17103.txt

In experiments using human monocytes--cells involved in the first line of defense against an invading pathogen--the researchers examined

ScienceDaily_2014 05738.txt

But careful cleaning of equipment and quarantine is their first line of defense. Fighting invasive species--like buckthorn and gypsy moths and garlic mustard--is a big part of our work here Herrick says

ScienceDaily_2014 08595.txt

Although medicine and vaccines can prevent some diseases they don't prevent them all in those cases stopping the bite in the first place is the best line of defense.

ScienceDaily_2014 08996.txt

Pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) is the first line of defense operating soon after the pathogen has landed on the plant surface.

The second line of defense is referred to as effector-triggered immunity (ETI) this is based on the detection of disease pathogens by the plant's genes--there is a relationship between the gene in the host plant and the gene in the pathogen.

This concept of plant ETI does not really explain the second line of defense in the interaction of plant hosts protecting themselves against extracellular fungal pathogens

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