US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER on Dec. 30 for "Bacteria isolated from legume root nodules grown in arid, Egyptian soils promote wheat growth" (Egyptian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,696, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER (Giza, Egypt).

"Bacteria isolated from legume root nodules grown in arid, Egyptian soils promote wheat growth" was invented by Ann M. Hirsch (Santa Monica, Canada), Sameh H. Youseif (Zagazig, Egypt) and Fayrouz H. Abd El-Megeed (Giza, Egypt).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for increasing one or more plant growth characteristics in a plant are disclosed. The compositions comprise one or more microbial isolates that promote plant growth. Methods include providing an effective amou...