Methods of use of seed-origin endophyte populations

US9532572B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Indigo Ag, 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: Feb 5, 2016
• Grant date: Jan 3, 2017
• Expiry date: Feb 27, 2036

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.