US Patent Issued to CAROLINA TRUFFIERES on Nov. 18 for "Methods and compositions for the production of ectomycorrhizal mycelia and methods of use thereof" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,541, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CAROLINA TRUFFIERES LLC (Fletcher, N.C.).

"Methods and compositions for the production of ectomycorrhizal mycelia and methods of use thereof" was invented by Davis M. Upchurch (Fletcher, N.C.) and Brian L. Upchurch (Fletcher, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods of cultivating ectomycorrhizal fungi, the method comprising incubating ectomycorrhizal MAT1-1 mycelia, ectomycorrhizal MAT1-2 mycelia, and ectomycorrhizal male mycelia in a culture medium for about 1 day to about 50 days, thereby cultivating ectomycorrhizal fungi to produce an ectomycorrhizal fungal bioma...