US Patent Issued on Jan. 13 for "Leaf markers for root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in plants" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,655, issued on Jan. 13.

"Leaf markers for root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in plants" was invented by Ian T. Baldwin (Jena, Germany), Rayko Halitschke (Bucha, Germany), Ming Wang (Jena, Germany), Dapeng Li (Jena, Germany), Martin Schafer (Munster, Germany), Erica McGale (Morges, Switzerland) and Sven Heiling (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of determining an association of a first plant with an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF), said method comprising comparing the amount of a blumenol in an aerial part of said first plant to the amount of said blumenol in an aerial pa...