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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven E Lindow, Berkeley, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01N / ; A01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
71 79 ; 424 93 ;
Abstract
A method is provided of reducing fruit russetting by treating the surface of a fruit to reduce the amount of auxins present on the surface. In a preferred embodiment, the population of auxin-producing bacteria is reduced by providing a competing auxin-deficient bacterial population.