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Microbe (or antibiotics) found at alfalfa roots?

Minghsun Liu ming at LIFESCI.UCLA.EDU
Mon Nov 7 02:13:44 EST 1994


I came across the following blurb in a weekly summary of health
science news.  Can anyone provide further detail?

>The discovery of a microbe in the roots of alfalfa plants
>reportedly could be used to fight human illness. A report in USA
>TODAY quotes University of Wisconsin, Madison, researcher Jo
>Handelsman as saying:  "We have identified a new class of
>antibiotics that may have applications beyond agriculture,
>perhaps in the treatment of human disease."

Much thanx.

- Minghsun Liu



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