MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517050435 A) filed by Syngenta Crop Protection Ag, Basel, Switzerland, on May 26, for 'methods for improving plant characteristics.'

Inventor(s) include Screpanti, Claudio; Oyserman, Ben; and Bergna, Alessandro.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method of enhancing a plant characteristic of a plant growing in a medium in the presence of a vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae fungal culture, comprising applying an effective amount of a composition comprising cyclobutrifluram to the plant, the locus or the medium, or plant propagati...