Bayer Cropscience Gmbh

Bioconsortia, Inc.

Hong Zhu

Colleen S Taylor

Magalie Guilhabert-Goya

Wolfram Andersch

Wolfgang Thielert

Bernd Springer

Damian Curtis

Debora Wilk

Graham Hymus

Reed Nathan Royalty

Jonathan S Margolis

Jorge I Jimenez

Jorge Santiago-ortiz

Thomas Williams

Shaohua Guan

Chad Kimmelshue

Yan Li

Abhishek Patri

The disclosure relates to isolated microorganisms—including novel strains of the microorganisms, microbial consortia, and agricultural compositions comprising the same. Furthermore, the disclosure teaches methods of utilizing the described microorganisms, microbial consortia, and agricultural compositions comprising the same, in methods for imparting beneficial properties to target plant species. In particular aspects, the disclosure provides methods of increasing desirable plant traits in agronomically important crop species.

Agriculturally beneficial microbes, microbial compositions, and consortia

The present invention provides a method of enriching a lipopeptide in a microbial cell culture, the method comprising mixing an amphiphilic sulfonate and/or an amphiphilic sulfate with the cell culture to induce the formation of aggregates containing the lipopeptide, centrifuging the cell culture to generate a supernatant fraction and a pellet fraction, separating the pellet fraction from the supernatant fraction, and mixing the pellet fraction with a polyoxyethylene glycol alkyl ether to release the lipopeptide from the aggregates. Also provided is a method of purifying an exopolysaccharide from a microbial cell culture, the method comprising mixing an amphiphilic sulfonate and/or an amphiphilic sulfate with the cell culture to induce the formation of aggregates, centrifuging the cell culture to generate a supernatant fraction and a pellet fraction, separating the supernatant fraction from the pellet fraction, adding alcohol to the supernatant fraction to precipitate the exopolysaccharide; and removing the precipitated exopolysaccharide from the supernatant fraction.

Method of purifying antifungal compounds and exopolysaccharides from a microbial cell culture

The present invention relates to a composition comprising at least one biological control agent selected from the group consisting ofstrain NRRL B-50550 and/or a mutant thereof having all the identifying characteristics of the respective strain, and/or at least one metabolite produced by the respective strain that exhibits activity against insects, mites, nematodes and/or phytopathogens and at least one insecticide in a synergistically effective amount, with the proviso that the biological control agent and the insecticide are not identical. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of this composition as well as a method for reducing overall damage of plants and plant parts.

Compositions comprising a streptomyces-based biological control agent and an insecticide

The present invention provides an insecticidal fermentation broth of an actinomycete, where the fermentation broth contains an optimized ratio of active dunaimycins to inactive dunaimycins.

Insecticidal fermentation broth from actinomycetes containing enhanced ratio of active to inactive dunaimycins

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