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AssigneeIndigo Agriculture, Inc.
InventorsKaren V. Ambrose, Brett A. Boghigian, Slavica Djonovic, Paul Andrew Gray, Gerardo V. Toledo, Luis Miguel Marquez, Geoffrey von Maltzahn
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This invention relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a plant by associating the plant with a complex endophyte comprising a host fungus further comprising a component bacterium, including benefits to a plant derived from a seed or other plant element treated with a complex endophyte. For example, this invention provides purified complex endophytes, purified complex endophyte components such as bacteria or fungi, synthetic combinations comprising said complex endophytes and/or components, and methods of making and using the same.
A synthetic composition, comprising an agricultural plant element heterologously associated with an isolated complex endophyte, wherein said isolated complex endophyte comprises a host fungus comprising an endogenous endofungal bacterial endophyte living inside the host fungal hyphae, wherein the host fungus is of the genus Botryosphaeria and the bacterial endophyte is of the genus Dyella, and the complex endophyte is capable of providing a trait of agronomic importance to said agricultural plant element.
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