Fungal biocontrol
AssigneeGrasslanz Technology Limited
InventorsStuart Douglas Card, Richard David Johnson, Davood Roodi
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Abstract
Disclosed is a strain of Beauveria spp. fungi which may be in a symbiotic association with a host plant, particularly a Brassicaceae host plant. Also disclosed are methods of using the disclosed Beauveria strain to confer resistance to at least one fungal pathogen to the host plant, as well as to combinations comprising the endophyte and a host plant or part thereof, including seeds.
Claims8
A method of conferring at least some level of fungal disease resistance on a host plant comprising artificially infecting the host plant with an isolated strain of B. bassiana O2380, representative sample having been deposited under accession DSM 33860 at Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, to form a host plant/B. bassiana combination.
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