{"id":27003,"date":"2024-02-02T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwdev.uwm.edu\/letters-science\/?p=26933"},"modified":"2024-02-02T13:14:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:14:55","slug":"uwm-biologist-awarded-2-4-million-for-an-antibiotic-alternative-for-treating-crop-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/in-focus\/uwm-biologist-awarded-2-4-million-for-an-antibiotic-alternative-for-treating-crop-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"51ÁÔÆæ biologist awarded $2.4 million for an antibiotic alternative for treating crop diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 51ÁÔÆæ 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ching-Hong Yang, professor of biological sciences, found that a novel natural compound, RejuAgro A, made by the innocuous bacterium&nbsp;<em>Pseudomonas soli<\/em>&nbsp;T307 strain, offers an environmentally friendly approach to combatting microbial infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full story on <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-biologist-awarded-2-4-million-for-an-antibiotic-alternative-for-treating-crop-diseases\/\">51ÁÔÆæ Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 51ÁÔÆæ 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. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":785,"featured_media":26934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[1648,1945,1846],"tags":[1852],"class_list":["post-27003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","category-in-focus-2024","category-research-news","tag-february"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Letters &amp; 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