US 12,329,161 B2
Synthetic microbial community for phyllosphere application
Britt Koskella, Berkeley, CA (US); and Elijah Curtis P. Mehlferber, Berkeley, CA (US)
Assigned to The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US)
Filed by The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/981,384.
Application 17/981,384 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2021/035035, filed on May 28, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/031,554, filed on May 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0064807 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A01N 63/20 (2020.01); A01G 7/06 (2006.01); A01P 3/00 (2006.01); A01P 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01N 63/20 (2020.01) [A01G 7/06 (2013.01); A01P 3/00 (2021.08); A01P 21/00 (2021.08)] 20 Claims
 
1. A method of fertilizing an agricultural crop, comprising applying to the crop a synthetic microbial community (SynCom) agricultural crop fertilizer composition comprising a microbial stabilizing buffer and phyllosphere microbiome bacterial strains configured to mimic the natural diversity of the bacterial community found in the crop phyllosphere microbiome, but at a reduced complexity, yet sufficient to effectively provide increased plant productivity or disease protection, wherein the bacterial strains are: Brevibacterium frigoritolerans, Curtobacterium herbarum, Curtobacterium pusillum, Frigoribacterium endophyticum, Microbacterium oleivorans, Rathayibacter festucae, Bacillus wiedmannii, Exiguobacterium sibiricum, Erwinia tasmaniensis, Pantoea agglomerans, Pantoea allii, Massilia aurea, Pseudomonas asturiensis, Pseudomonas moraviensis, Pseudomonas rhizosphaerae, and Pseudomonas rhodesiae.