Biological inoculant having enhanced fertilizing and fungicidal activity
AssigneeYpf Tecnologia S.A.
InventorsWalter Alberto Vargas, Sebastián Reinoso, María Cecilia Orsini, Sebastián Alejandro Trejo, Eliana Abrahamovich
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Abstract
A biological inoculant having both fertilizing and fungicidal activity is disclosed. More particularly, a bio-inoculant having the said combined effects, comprising Bradyrhizobium japonicum and specific isolates from the Trichoderma genus is disclosed. The bio-inoculant is applied to soybean crops for preventing fungi borne diseases. More particularly, the bio-inoculant of the invention is useful for protecting soybean crops against infection by Fusarium sp., Colletotrichum sp., Cercospora sp., Sclerotinia sp. and Rhizoctonia sp.
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A biological inoculant comprising
- a) Bradyrhizobium japonicum;
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- b) a Trichoderma harzianum strain, wherein the Trichoderma harzianum strain comprises an intergenic region of the 18S rRNA gene sequence selected from those set forth in SEQ ID NO:
- 1, SEQ ID NO:
- 2 and SEQ ID NO:
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.