Fungal volatile organic compound enhances plant s growth characteristics

US11254907B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture · US

Inventors

• Christopher D. Dardick · Kearneysville, US
• Wojciech J. Janisiewicz · Martinsburg, US
• Zongrang Liu · Winchester, US
• Zhijian Li · Martinsburg, US
• Ann M. Callahan · Harpers Ferry, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 19, 2019
• Grant date: Feb 22, 2022
• Expiry date: Mar 19, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12R2001/645
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method of increasing east one growth characteristic of a plant comprising growing a Cladosporium sphaerospermum strain in or on a medium in a container, where a headspace of said C. sphaerospermum in said container is in fluid communication with a headspace of said plant, where said C. sphaerospermum produces at least one volatile organic compound (VOC), where said at least one VOC produced by said C. sphaerospermum causes the plant to have an increase in at least one growth characteristic when compared to the growth characteristic of a plant which has not been exposed to the VOC, and where said C. sphaerospermum comprises an ITS1/2 consensus amplicon of SEQ ID NO: 5 and an ITS3/4 consensus amplicon of SEQ ID NO: 6.