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Question - Can we immunize plants from any particular microbe.?
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By definition, you can only immunize organisms that are capable of 
synthesizing antibodies. Antibodies are complex proteins (approximately 
10,000 times the size of a water molecule) that are made by white blood 
cells and as far as we know, only vertebrates are capable of developing 
white blood cells capable of making antibodies.

Ron Baker, Ph.D.
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