Anna Wright Poet Light Verse

Prescription For a Mango Plant With Agrobacterium Tumefaciens Infection:

A. tumefaciens in your soil?
If you’re a dicot, you’re in deep

Older plants can live right through it,
But fruit production gets rather weak

Younger buds are susceptible
When cut or chewed or scraped

Once infected, plants start leaning,
Crushed by the tumor that it makes

When it comes to prevention,
It’s all in the farmer’s hands

But once you’ve been infected,
There’s no hope for you, my friend…

Perhaps you should release a toxin 
That mimics its own stress hormones

Or evolve to switch your signaling
And grow stronger, non-conjugatable walls?


Your life may be coming to an end,
But for now, I recommend...

Use essential ions like essential oils!
DNA keep tightly coiled

Secrete some chemicals to increase
Protection against microbial disease

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