Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for improving the mean dry shoot weight, mean dry grain weight, and suppressing seed-borne infection in a cereal crop
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Application No.: US15507585Application Date: 2015-08-29
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Publication No.: US10765084B2Publication Date: 2020-09-08
- Inventor: Brian Murphy , Trevor Hodkinson , Fiona Doohan
- Applicant: The Provost, Fellows, Scholars and other members of Board of Trinity College Dublin , University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin
- Applicant Address: IE Dublin IE Dublin
- Assignee: The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars & the Other Members of Board, of the College of the Holy & Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, Near Dublin,University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin
- Current Assignee: The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars & the Other Members of Board, of the College of the Holy & Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, Near Dublin,University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin
- Current Assignee Address: IE Dublin IE Dublin
- Agency: Cesari and McKenna, LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@6a09146
- International Application: PCT/EP2015/069809 WO 20150829
- International Announcement: WO2016/030535 WO 20160303
- Main IPC: A01H17/00
- IPC: A01H17/00 ; A01C1/06 ; A01N63/30 ; A01C1/08

Abstract:
A seed coating composition comprising a mixture of a fungal root endophyte isolated from a root of the plant found in low-nutrient, drought-stressed or multiply-stressed conditions and a carrier medium for application of said composition to a target seed, wherein the endophyte is characterised in having a nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (nr ITS) with at least a 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 15.
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