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Climate change remains a great challenge to rural livelihoods in Sierra Leone, especially in agricultural communities that depend on climate-sensitive resources. Although indigenous knowledge has been ...

Infected plants assemble immune-protein complexes on cell membranes to induce defence responses and cell death. Some such complexes can form large ring-like clusters.