US Patent Issued to BASF on March 4 for "Mixtures and compositions comprising Paenibacillus strains or fusaricidins and chemical pesticides" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,136, issued on March 4, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Mixtures and compositions comprising Paenibacillus strains or fusaricidins and chemical pesticides" was invented by Isabella Siepe (Limburgerhof, Germany), Burghard Liebmann (Limburgerhof, Germany), Thorsten Jabs (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Annette Schuster (Limburgerhof, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel mixtures comprising, as active components, at least one isolated bacterial strain, which is a member of the genus Paenibacillus, or a cell-free extract thereof or at least one metabolite thereof, and at least one che...