Brachiaria-urochloa endophytes
AssigneeAgriculture Victoria Services PTY LTD
InventorsGerman Carlos Spangenberg, Kathryn Michaela Guthridge
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Abstract
The present invention relates to fungi of Acremonium spp, wherein said fungi are purified or isolated from plants of the Brachiaria-Urochloa complex and wherein, when said fungi are inoculated into a plant, said plant has improved resistance to diseases and/or pests relative to an uninocualated control plant. The present invention also relates to plants inoculated with such fungi, products produced by the fungi and related genes, proteins and methods.
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A method of increasing resistance to pests and/or diseases in a plant, said method comprising the step of inoculating said plant with a fungi of Acremonium spp., wherein, when said fungus is inoculated into the plant, said plant has improved resistance to diseases and/or pests relative to an uninoculated control plant and wherein the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of said fungi has 99% or greater sequence identity with the internal transcribed spacer of Acremonium 9.2A or Acremonium 3.3A.
A method of increasing resistance to pests and/or diseases in a plant, said method comprising the step of inoculating said plant with a fungi of Acremonium spp., wherein, when said fungus is inoculated into the plant, said plant has improved resistance to diseases and/or pests relative to an uninoculated control plant and wherein the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of said fungi has 99% or greater sequence identity with the internal transcribed spacer of Acremonium 3.3A.
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