A UWM faculty researcher has been awarded two federal grants, totaling $2.4 million, to further study of a compound he sourced from a bacterium that shows promise for controlling some crop diseases with the same efficacy as the human antibiotic.
Ching-Hong Yang, professor of biological sciences, found that a novel natural compound, RejuAgro A, made by the innocuous bacterium Pseudomonas soli T307 strain, offers an environmentally friendly approach to combatting microbial infections.
The goal, Yang said, is to offer farmers a safe and effective treatment for diseases that decimate crop yields without contributing to antibiotic resistance in people who eat the fruit.
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