Method and inoculant for preserving agricultural products for animal feed
AssigneePioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
InventorJohn E. Hill
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method of preserving agricultural products comprising treating these products with an effective amount of Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 53187 or mutants thereof and the treating organism.
Claims17
A method of preserving an agricultural product which comprises treating said product with an effective amount of Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 53187 or effective mutants thereof.
A method of suppressing the growth of fungi in an agricultural product which comprises treating said product with an effective amount of Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 53187 or effective mutants thereof.
A biologically pure culture of an organism selected from the group consisting of:
- (a) Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 53187 which possesses a fungal inhibiting property, and
- (b) a mutant derivative of Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 53187 which possesses a fungal inhibiting property that is equivalent to said fungal inhibiting property of Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 53187;
- wherein said culture is capable of use in enhancing the preservation of an agricultural product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.