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US 12,599,139 B2Granted
Means and methods for improving plant growth and yield
AssigneeAphea.Bio NV
InventorsTom Viaene, Sofie Goormachtig, Thomas Simon, Behnoush Ghodsalavi, Steven Vandenabeele, Isabel Vercauteren
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Abstract
The current invention relates to a purified bacterial strain for improving plant growth and/or yield. The invention also relates to a bacterial population, a microbial active ingredient, an agriculturally active ingredient, a synthetic composition, and methods for improving plant growth and/or yield by improving a trait of agronomic importance in a plant and by conferring resistance to a plant pathogen infection.
Claims10
A method of enhancing growth of a plant, the method comprising:
- administering a bacterial strain to the plant, a part thereof, a seed for growing the plant or a location comprising the plant, wherein the bacterial strain comprises a 16S polynucleotide identical to SEQ ID No. 5 over the entire length of SEQ ID No. 5.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.