US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture, Pheronym on June 16 for "Compositions and methods for promoting soil microbials for plant health and stress tolerance" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,194, issued on June 16, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington) and Pheronym Inc. (Woodland, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for promoting soil microbials for plant health and stress tolerance" was invented by David I. Shapiro Ilan (Macon, Ga.) and Fatma Kaplan (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to pheromone extracts from nematode growth medium, and methods of using such nematode extracts to increase the abundance of fungal and bacterial microbials in the soil to promote plant growth, plant health, and to protect plants from environ...