Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada As Represented by the Ministerof Agriculture and Agri-food Canada

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Verséa Holdings Inc.

Agriculture and Agri-food Canada

Versea Health, Inc.

Pascal Delaquis

Perry David Lidster

Eduardo Cacace

Perry Lidster

The disclosure provides an antimicrobial mixture of at least two volatile compounds derived from essential oils, at least one of which is a bactericide selected from cinnamaldehyde, diacetyl, and acetic acid with another being a fungicide selected from allyl isothiocyanate, hexanal, thymol, and 2-nonane. The antimicrobial mixture inhibits both bacterial and fungal pathogens that negatively impact the shelf-life of perishable agricultural commodities, and at concentrations sufficiently low to avoid phytotoxic effects to agricultural commodities held in closed shipping and storage systems.

Antimicrobial mixtures of an essential oil derived bactericide and an essential oil derived fungicide which extend the shelf-life of perishable agricultural commodities

A method for producing bacterial cellulose, said method comprising culturing a biologically pure culture of a cellulose-producingstrain in a liquid medium suitable for culturing facultatively anaerobic microorganisms, separating bacterial cellulose produced in said liquid medium from said liquid medium, washing said separated bacterial cellulose and drying said bacterial cellulose. The cellulose-producingstrain is preferably astrain, preferably strain IDAC 071005-01 or strain ATCC 19692. The liquid medium is provided with a carbohydrate substrate containing at least one sugar selected from the group consisting of glucose, sucrose, fructose, lactose, xylose, and rhamnose. A bacterial cellulose product produced by culturing a biologically pure culture of a cellulose-producingstrain in a liquid medium suitable for culturing facultatively anaerobic microorganisms.

Cellulose production by facultatively anaerobic microorganisms

Cellulose producing strain of proteus myxofaciens

Growing community of inventors

Summerland, Canada

Pascal Delaquis