US Patent Issued to Pro Farm Group on Sept. 16 for "Microbes, compositions, and uses for increasing plant yield and/or drought tolerance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,568, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Pro Farm Group Inc. (Davis, Calif.).

"Microbes, compositions, and uses for increasing plant yield and/or drought tolerance" was invented by Brittany Pierce (Davis, Calif.), Ana Lucia Cordova-Kreylos (Davis, Calif.), Pamela G. Marrone (Davis, Calif.) and Debora Wilk (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes modified and unmodified microbes, compositions comprising these microbes, and methods of using these microbes and/or compositions for enhancing plant health, plant growth plant yield and/or drought tolerance. This disclosure also provides non-naturally occ...