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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2015
Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd, Attwood, AU;
German Spangenberg, Bundoora, AU;
Kathryn Michaela Guthridge, Hadfield, AU;
John White Forster, Diamond Creek, AU;
Timothy Ivor Sawbridge, Coburg, AU;
Emma Jane Isobel Ludlow, Viewbank, AU;
Jatinder Kaur, Taylors Hill, AU;
Simone Jane Rochfort, Reservoir, AU;
Maia Andrea Rabinovich, Buenos Aires, AR;
Piyumi Ekanayake, Bundoora, AU;
Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTD, Bundoora, AU;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for identifying and/or characterising an endophyte strain, said method including providing a plurality of samples of endophytes, subjecting said endophytes to genetic analysis; subjecting said endophytes to metabolic analysis and selecting endophytes having a desired genetic and metabolic profile. The present invention also relates to novel endophytes having a desired toxin profile wherein the endophyte produces significantly less toxic alkaloids compared with a control endophyte such as standard toxic (ST) endophyte; and/or significantly more alkaloids conferring beneficial properties compared with a control endophyte such as ST endophyte. The present invention also relates to endophyte variants having a desired genetic and metabolic profile, wherein said endophyte variants possess genetic and/or metabolic characteristics that result in a beneficial phenotype in a plant harbouring or otherwise associated with the endophyte variant. Preferably said endophyte variants are generated by polyploidisation or induced chromosome doubling.