US Patent Issued to PANEFRI INDUSTRIAL on April 14 for "Bacteriophage, bacterial wilt disease control agent, and bacterial wilt disease control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,142, issued on April 14, was assigned to PANEFRI INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Bacteriophage, bacterial wilt disease control agent, and bacterial wilt disease control method" was invented by Toshiaki Harashima (Okinawa, Japan), Kazuma Nakano (Okinawa, Japan), Toru Karimata (Okinawa, Japan) and Kumiko Hokama (Okinawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bacteriophages that comprise a tail fiber protein sequence comprising a C terminus host recognition site described by SEQ ID NO: 1 and which infect Ralstonia solanacearum which causes bacterial wilt disease are disclosed. Compositions comprising these bacteriophages may b...