PRODUCING HYBRID AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL-PRODUCING BACTERIA

• Main Author: CARLSON, P.S
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.03.1988
• Edition: 4
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPSOR SEAWEED; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FERTILISERS; FERTILISING; FISHING; FORESTRY; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; MANUFACTURE THEREOF; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEW PLANTS OR PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; ORGANIC FERTILISERS NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C05B, C05C, e.g. FERTILISERS FROM WASTE OR REFUSE; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PLANTING; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; PROCESSES USING MICROORGANISMS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SOWING; SPIRITS; TRAPPING; VINEGAR; WATERING; WINE

A method of producing hybrid agricultural-chemical-producing bacteria capable of entering into endosymbiotic relationships with a plant host has been discovered which comprises fusion of agricultural-chemical-producing bacteria and a plant-infecting bacterial species for the plant host (sometimes referred to as "infecting bacteria") and selecting from the products of the fusion process those bacteria capable of producing an agricultural chemical and of entering into an endosymbiotic relationship with the plant host without creating manifestations of disease in the plant host.