Method for improving the mean dry shoot weight, mean dry grain weight, and suppressing seed-borne infection in a cereal crop

US10765084B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS, AND THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · IE
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE

Inventors

• Brian Murphy · Fort Collins, US
• Trevor Hodkinson · Forbes, AU
• Fiona Doohan · Gortahork, IE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 29, 2015
• Grant date: Sep 8, 2020
• Expiry date: Nov 17, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N15/82
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A seed coating composition comprising a mixture of a fungal root endophyte isolated from a root of the plant found in low-nutrient, drought-stressed or multiply-stressed conditions and a carrier medium for application of said composition to a target seed, wherein the endophyte is characterised in having a nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (nr ITS) with at least a 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 15.