US Patent Issued to Bayer CropScience on Sept. 9 for "Paenibacillus strains and methods for their use" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,673, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Bayer CropScience LP (St. Louis).

"Paenibacillus strains and methods for their use" was invented by Jeremy Beau (Woodland, Calif.), Andreas Goertz (Dormagen, Germany), Adam Newman (Sacramento, Calif.), Patrick Schwientek (Davis, Calif.), Colleen S. Taylor (Folsom, Calif.), Donglan Tian (Davis, Calif.) and Bjorn A. Traag (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a composition comprising a biologically pure culture of a Paenibacillus sp. strain or a cell-free preparation thereof comprising a fusaricidin and a tridecaptin; wherein the fusaricidin is produ...