UWM scientist awarded grant for an environmentally-friendly approach to combatting crop disease.

• Biological Sciences professor Ching-Hong Yang was recently awarded two federal grants totaling $2.4 million for his research into combatting crop disease.
• He found that a compound sourced from the bacterium Pseudomonas soli T307 strain shows promise for controlling some crop diseases with the same efficacy as the human antibiotic.

• Yang hopes to offer growers a safe and effective method to combat bacterial infections that impact the nation’s food supply.

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