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US 9,101,144 · App. 13/747,995 · Granted Aug 11, 2015

Plant growth promoting rhizobacterium

Inventors: Mitchel John Doktycz (Knoxville, TN); Dale A. Pelletier (Knoxville, TN); Christopher Warren Schadt (Knoxville, TN); Gerald A. Tuskan (Oak Ridge, TN); David Weston (Oak Ridge, TN)
Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLC.
A01N63/00
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Patent No.
US 9,101,144
App. No.
13/747,995
Granted
Aug 11, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention is directed to the Pseudomonas fluorescens strain GM30 deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-13340, compositions containing the GM30 strain, and methods of using the GM30 strain to enhance plant growth and/or enhance plant resistance to pathogens.

Claims (4)

1. A method of enhancing plant growth comprising inoculating a plant with the Pseudomonas fluorescens strain GM30 deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-13340.

2. A method of enhancing plant resistance to at least one pathogen comprising culturing a plant with the Pseudomonas fluorescens strain GM30 deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-13340.

3. The method of claim 1 or 2 wherein the plant is a Populus species.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the plant is Populus deltoides.

Assignments (2)
CONFIRMATORY LICENSE Recorded Aug 28, 2013
From: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
To: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Reel/Frame 031106/0468 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 4, 2013
From: DOKTYCZ, MITCHEL J.; PELLETIER, DALE A.; SCHADT, CHRISTOPHER W.; TUSKAN, GERALD A.; WESTON, DAVID J.
To: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
Reel/Frame 030149/0544 →
Continuity (1)
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