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US 2020/0370065 A1Published application
Salt-tolerant plants
OwnerBrent L. Nielseninventor
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Abstract
A salt tolerant plant is created by inoculation of a glycophyte plant with bacteria isolated from a halophyte plant.
Claims20
An artificial salt tolerant plant comprising;
- a glycophyte plant combined with a non-host halophile bacteria inoculated into the glycophyte plant rhizosphere or as an endophyte to form the salt tolerant plant, the salt tolerant plant having a symbiotic relationship between the plant and the non-host halophile bacteria to provide growth promotion to the formed salt tolerant plant under saline conditions and to form an artificial plant/bacteria combination that does not naturally occur,
- the non-host halophile bacteria being identifiable as a naturally occurring soil bacteria associated with a halophyte plant, the halophyte plant being identifiable as a member of inland occurring halophyte plants of the subfamily Salicornioideae.
A method for creating an artificial salt tolerant plant comprising:
- inoculating a glycophyte plant with a non-host halophile bacteria into the plant rhizosphere or as an endophyte to form the salt tolerant plant, the salt tolerant plan having a symbiotic relationship between the plant and the non-host halophile bacteria to provide growth promotion to the salt tolerant plant under saline conditions, the symbiotic relationship being an artificial plant/bacteria combination that does not otherwise naturally occur, the non-host halophile bacteria being identifiable as a naturally occurring soil bacteria associated with a halophyte plant, the halophyte plant being identifiable as a member of inland occurring halophyte plants of the subfamily Salicornioideae.
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