Plant microbe shares features with drug-resistant pathogen
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 09:49
in Biology & Nature
UPTON, NY -- An international team of scientists has discovered extensive similarities between a strain of bacteria commonly associated with plants and one increasingly linked to opportunistic infections in hospital patients. The findings suggest caution in the use of the plant-associated strain for a range of biotech applications. The genetic analysis was conducted in part at the U.S.