Seed-origin endophyte populations, compositions, and methods of use

US9113636B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Symbiota, Inc. · US

Inventors

• 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
• Alexander Naydich · Ithaca, US
• Craig Sadowski · Somerville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 26, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 25, 2015
• Expiry date: Jun 26, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A01C1/00
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed or seedling of an agricultural plant (e.g., an agricultural grass plant), or the agricultural plant derived from the seed or seedling. For example, this application provides purified bacterial populations that include novel seed-origin bacterial endophytes, and synthetic combinations of seeds and/or seedlings (e.g., cereal seeds and/or seedlings) with heterologous seed-derived bacterial endophytes.