Methods and compositions for reducing damage to a plant or plant part
AssigneeNewLeaf Symbiotics, Inc.
InventorsDavid Flack, Desmond R. Jimenez, Anne ZIMMERMAN PHILLIPS
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides compositions comprising Methylobacterium strains and methods related thereto that reduce plant damage due to piercing-sucking insects and/or pathogens transmitted by such insects.
Claims43
A method for reducing insect damage and/or insect transmitted disease damage to a crop, wherein said insect is a piercing-sucking insect, and wherein said method comprises:
- (i) applying a composition comprising Methylobacterium strain NLS0017, deposited as NRRL B-50931 and/or NLS0109, deposited as NRRL B-67340 to a plant, a seed, or soil where seed has been or will be planted, and (ii) growing a crop in the presence of said piercing-sucking insect, thereby reducing damage to the plant from said insect and/or disease transmitted by said insect as compared to a plant not treated with said composition or grown in soil not treated with said composition.
A method for reducing virus damage caused by a virus vectored by a leafhopper or thrips to a plant crop, wherein said method comprises:
- (i) applying a composition comprising Methylobacterium strain NLS0017, deposited as NRRL B-50931, and/or NLS0109, deposited as NRRL B-67340, to a plant, a seed, or soil where seed has been or will be planted, wherein said leafhopper or thrips is capable of vectoring a virus that infects said plant or a crop grown from said seed, and (ii) growing a crop of plants from said seed in the presence of said leafhopper or thrips, thereby reducing damage to the crop from said virus as compared to a crop not treated with said composition or grown in soil not treated with said composition.
A virus disease management method for use in growing a crop in a region where insects capable of transmitting a virus that infects said crop is present, wherein said method comprises:
- (i) applying a composition comprising Methylobacterium NLS0017 and/or NLS0109 to a plant, a seed, or soil where said seed has been or will be planted:
- (ii) applying an insecticide active against said insect to said plant, seed or soil where said seed has been or will be planted, and (iii) growing said plant or seed in the presence of said insect, thereby reducing damage to said plant from said virus as compared to a plant not treated with said composition in (i) or grown in soil not treated with said composition in (i).
The method of any one of claims 364 to 36 wherein said virus is a geminivirus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.