Systemic non-nodular endosymbiotic nitrogen fixation in plants
US8137665B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 21, 2008 |
| Grant date | Mar 20, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 1, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S435/823
- WIPO fieldFood chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Non-leguminous crops, e.g. wheat, maize and rice, do not form nodules and are dependant for their nutrition on fixed nitrogen from the soil, or from chemical/nitrogenous fertilizers. The present invention provides non-leguminous plants and leguminous plants, including legumes that fail to nodulate with Rhizobia, with bacteria that enable them to fix nitrogen endophytically. Therefore, the plants contain nitrogen fixing bacteria the bacteria being located intracellularly in living plant cells.
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