US Patent Issued to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION on Feb. 10 for "Methods for detecting fungi in turf grass with a lamp assay having novel primer sets" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,966, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Methods for detecting fungi in turf grass with a lamp assay having novel primer sets" was invented by Marilena Palmisano (Wadenswil, Switzerland) and Christian Wohler (Wadenswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for detecting fungal DNA in a turf grass sample with a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay which contains primers for fungal DNA of at least one turf pathogenic fungi selected from Sclerotinia homoeocarpa, Rhizoctonia solani spp., Pythium aphanidermatum, Gaeumannomyces gr...