Plant kingdom provides two new candidates for the war on antibiotic resistance

Monday, June 20, 2016 - 13:01 in Biology & Nature

New research has discovered peptides from two crop species that have antimicrobial effects on bacteria implicated in food spoilage and food poisoning. They are similar in structure to a human peptide used to guard against beer-spoiling bacteria.

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