US Patent Issued to Bayer CropScience on Oct. 6 for "Paenibacillus strain, antifungal compounds, and methods for their use" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,207, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Bayer CropScience LLC (St. Louis).

"Paenibacillus strain, antifungal compounds, and methods for their use" was invented by Jeremy Beau (Woodland, Calif.), Daniel M. Joo (Raleigh, N.C.), Patrick Schwientek (Davis, Calif.), Colleen S. Taylor (Folsom, Calif.) and Bjorn A. Traag (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition comprising a biologically pure culture of a fungicidal Paenibacillus sp. strain comprising a variant fusaricidin synthetase lacking a functional adenylation domain in the third module. The present invention also provides a comp...