If you’re dreaming of a white Christmas, look no further than Pseudomonas syringae. This plant pathogen has a very special talent - turning water molecules into rain droplets and ice crystals! Many ...

The plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae causes major damage in agriculture. However, it also produces a large number of biologically active natural products. These could help the bacterium to adapt to ...

To accomplish successful infection, pathogens deploy complex strategies to interfere with host defense systems and subvert host physiology to favor pathogen survival and multiplication. Modulation of ...

A water droplet never freezes at zero degrees Celsius. Water forms ice only at the temperature which is commonly known as freezing point, if it is in contact with large surfaces with many and large ...

Pseudomonas syringae pv. pisi strains were characterized by pathogenicity tests on eight differential pea genotypes and by two genomic fingerprinting methods: PCR with REP and ERIC primers, and pulsed ...

Many ski resorts around the world rely on artificial snow production to create better conditions on their slopes. For decades, bacteria have been used to help this process along. Microbes like ...

You probably associate bacteria with diseases, but in reality only a tiny fraction of the bacteria in the world are parasites or pathogens. In fact, some bacteria play a significant role in the ...

The capacity of bacteria to spread disease across the Plant Kingdom may be much more widespread than previously suspected, according to new analysis. John Innes Centre researchers took a comparative ...

A destructive outbreak of kiwifruit bleeding canker disease threatened the global fruit industry and fragile local economies from 2010 onwards. The outbreak continues to affect kiwifruit-growing ...

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