Method for propagating microorganisms within plant bioreactors and stably storing microorganisms within agricultural seeds

US10362787B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH · AT
• Indigo Ag, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Birgit Mitter · Hinterbrühl, AT
• Muhammad Naveed · Faisalabad, PK
• Teresa Berninger · Wien, AT
• Stephane Compant · Wien, AT
• Angela Sessitsch · Wien, AT
• Geoffrey von Maltzahn · Boston, US
• Richard Bailey Flavell · Thousand Oaks, US
• Gerardo V. Toledo · Belmont, US
• Slavica Djonovic · Malden, US
• Luis Miguel Marquez · Belmont, US
• David Morris Johnston · Cambridge, US
• Yves Millet · Newton, US
• Jeffrey Lyford · Cambridge, US
• Jonathan W. Leff · Cambridge, US
• Phillip Samayoa · Cambridge, US
• Craig Sadowski · Somerville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 24, 2014
• Grant date: Jul 30, 2019
• Expiry date: Dec 31, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N1/20
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present invention relates to methods of scalably producing microorganisms by propagating them within plant tissues and introducing them into agricultural seeds to improve their shelf-life during long-term storage, to produce substances of interest, and to create libraries of microbes.