Process for the prevention and suppression of bacterial diseases in plants
AssigneePhylloTech, LLC
InventorRyan William Shepherd
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Abstract
The invention is directed to methods and compositions that inhibit pathogen proliferation. More specifically, in various embodiments the present invention relates to activities of acylases as disruptors of bacterial disease, and thus virulence, and the utility of acylases as control agents for plant disease.
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A method for suppressing or abolishing disease and/or imparting disease resistance to plants comprising the application of an acylase in the presence or absence of another control to the cells of a plant, whereby disease is suppressed or abolished, or resistance to plant diseases is imparted to the plant.
A method for inhibiting proliferation of a microbe in or on a plant comprising overexpressing an acylase in the plant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.