US Patent Issued to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY on Dec. 30 for "Population genetics approach to biological control of mycotoxin production" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,697, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Population genetics approach to biological control of mycotoxin production" was invented by Ignazio Carbone (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods for controlling mycotoxin production in field populations of heterothallic and homothallic filamentous fungi through application of biocontrol compositions comprising selected strains of the heterothallic and homothallic filamentous fungi, the selected strains having a lineage of low mycotoxin production or no mycotoxin production and having opposite mating type...