US 12,279,619 B2
Bacteria from medicago root nodules as plant probiotic bacteria for agriculture
Ann M. Hirsch, Los Angeles, CA (US); Pilar Martinez-Hidalgo, Los Angeles, CA (US); and Drora Kaplan, Beer-Sheva (IL)
Assigned to The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US); and B.G, Negev Technologies & Applications. Ltd., at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva (IL)
Appl. No. 17/260,995
Filed by THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Oakland, CA (US); and B.G. Negev Technologies & Applications Ltd., at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva (IL)
PCT Filed Jul. 17, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/042244
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/018694, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/700,003, filed on Jul. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0289793 A1, Sep. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. A01N 63/20 (2020.01); A01N 63/22 (2020.01); A01N 63/25 (2020.01); A01N 63/28 (2020.01); C12N 1/20 (2006.01); C12R 1/01 (2006.01); C12R 1/07 (2006.01); C12R 1/29 (2006.01)
CPC A01N 63/20 (2020.01) [A01N 63/22 (2020.01); A01N 63/25 (2020.01); A01N 63/28 (2020.01); C12N 1/205 (2021.05); C12R 2001/01 (2021.05); C12R 2001/07 (2021.05); C12R 2001/29 (2021.05)] 19 Claims
 
1. A method of increasing one or more plant growth characteristics in a plant, comprising: providing to the plant an effective amount of one or more of the following plant growth-promoting microbial isolates: Dietzia cinnamea 55 (NRRL Accession No. B-67422), Bacillus PSB43′ (NRRL Accession No. B-67416), Micromonospora UTRUM1 (NRRL Accession No. B-67418), Paenibacillus pabuli 151 (NRRL Accession No. B-67417), Lysinobacillus sphaericus 47 (NRRL Accession No. B-67423), Paenibacillus MBEV37 B17 (Accession No. B-67419), Exiguobacterium alkaliphilum 20 (NRRL Accession No. B-67425), and Bacillus safensis 34 (NRRL Accession No. B-67620).