US Patent Issued to INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGROPECUARIAS on Aug. 4 for "Method and kit for detecting the presence of silver leaf disease Chondrostereum purpureum fungus" (Chilean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,091, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGROPECUARIAS (Providencia, Chile).

"Method and kit for detecting the presence of silver leaf disease Chondrostereum purpureum fungus" was invented by Daina Grinbergs Salas (Providencia, Chile), Ricardo Javier Chilian (Providencia, Chile), Jaime Humberto Mejias Bassaletti (Providencia, Chile) and Rene Andres France Iglesias (Providencia, Chile).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antibody that is used to detect the presence of the Chondrostereum purpureum fungus in a plant sample, where the antibody specifically binds to the endolipogalacturonase enzyme produced by Chond...