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US 5,679,362 AGranted
Packaged fungal culture stable to long term storage
AssigneeEcoScience Corporation
InventorsDavid W. Miller, Carol Ann Johnson, Paul Perry
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Abstract
A method for packaging an insect infection chamber that attracts insects, then infects them with a lethal dosage of fungus, where the packaging maintains high humidity within the chamber, allows fee exchange of gases, and is impermeable to microbes, including fungal spores, viruses, and bacteria.
Claims6
A packaged fungal culture comprising
- fungal spores consisting of viable pathogenic Metarhizium spores,
- wherein the spores and sufficient water to create an atmosphere of 100% relative humidity are packaged within a sealed flexible packaging material
- wherein the packaging material allows free exchange of O.sub.2 and CO.sub.2, has low permeability to water vapor and maintains 100% relative humidity around the spores, and is impermeable to microbial organisms.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.