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

US11753618B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

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

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 17, 2020
• Grant date: Sep 12, 2023
• Expiry date: Dec 17, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N33/0098
• 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.