Plants are quietly borrowing tricks from bacteria, repurposing foreign genes to build complex molecules that look a lot like ...

A trusted and essential resource for more than four decades, Laboratory Guide for Identification of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria returns in a fully updated fourth edition. This guide remains the most ...

A potent plant toxin with a unique way of killing harmful bacteria has emerged as one of the strongest new antibiotic candidates in decades. A potent plant toxin with a unique way of killing harmful ...

A research team found that plant-derived compounds significantly lowered the abundance of pathogenic bacteria, antibiotic ...

Because of industrial climate chaos, catastrophic economic inequality, war and displacement, there is, as the United Nations ...

St. Paul, Minn. (November 6, 2003) While the medical community has been exploring the use of bacteriophages, a form of virus that can be used to manage bacteria that have become resistant to ...

A recent study has discovered and characterized secreted proteins from the pathogen Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum. These proteins, called effectors, offer clues into the manipulation tactics ...

Researchers discovered how virulent bacterial proteins leech nutrients from plant cells, leading to a potential treatment for diseased crops. The team found that four related proteins from different ...

As the world wrestles with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which arose after the virus jumped from an animal species to the human species, University of Delaware researchers are learning about ...