US Patent Issued to The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research on Sept. 23 for "Biological control of plant pathogenic microorganisms" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,489, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Biological control of plant pathogenic microorganisms" was invented by Philip Elmer (Hamilton, New Zealand) and Stephen Hoyte (Hamilton, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the use of an isolated Aureobasidium pullulans yeast strain YBCA5 as a biological control agent. Processes and compositions for the biological control of phytopathogenic bacteria and fungi using YBCA5 are also provided."

The patent was filed on Aug. 20, 2021, under Application No. 17/408,169.

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