This most damaging soybean pathogen was first found in the US in 1954 and most recent estimates show that it results in $1.5 billion in annual yield losses
Overuse of antibiotics in humans has led to several microbes developing antibiotic resistance; researchers explore if this is also true of antibiotics used on crops
Though Pst is known to be highly host-specific, it is interestingly able to infect two unrelated host plants, wheat and barberry, at different spore stages