date:Jan 17, 2019
looked at tomato plants and was published in the journal BMC Plant Biology.
Researchers found Salmonella enters through a gap created when a lateral root branches out from the plants main root and that it can penetrate the deeper layer of the root. This is different to other disease-causing bacteria that enter the root, fruit or leaf by producing enzymes to break down the plants cell wall. Salmonella is incapable of using cellulose or pectin so invasion by degrading the cell wall of the plant i