The bacterium under study,Pseudomonas syringae, causes a disease in French bean plants known as halo blight.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
The same goes for vegetable beds where the tomato plants were marred by blight, or the legumes were lousy with bean beetles.
From the washingtonpost.com
Porch and university colleagues are also developing new black bean germplasm lines with tolerance to heat and drought and resistance to root rot and common bacterial blight.