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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 1991
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alan K Watson, Pincourt, CA;
Alan R Gotlieb, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Assignees:
The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning (McGill Univ.), Quebec, CA;
The Univ. of Vermont and State Agriculturual College, Burlington, VT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
71 79 ; 71 65 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed a process for controlling undesirable vegetation, espelly velvetleaf by applying Colletotrichum coccodes spores onto the undesirable vegetation or onto the situs of the undesirable vegetation. The composition including the fungus spores in an agricultural carrier as well as the growing of the fungus on solid or liquid media are also disclosed. The spores germinate, infect the undesirable vegetation and result in a pathogenic disease which kills or reduces the growth of this undesirable plant.