ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,752, issued on May 19, was assigned to Grasslanz Technology Ltd. (Lincoln, New Zealand).
"Fungal biocontrol" was invented by Stuart Douglas Card (Palmerston North, New Zealand), Richard David Johnson (Palmerston North, New Zealand) and Davood Roodi (Tehran, Iran).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a strain of Beauveria spp. fungi which may be in a symbiotic association with a host plant, particularly a Brassicaceae host plant. Also disclosed are methods of using the disclosed Beauveria strain to confer resistance to at least one fungal pathogen to the host plant, as well as to combinations comprising the endophyte and a host p...