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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2001
Eric W. Triplett, Middleton, WI (US);
Thomas C. Herlache, Madison, WI (US);
Eric W. Triplett, Middleton, WI (US);
Thomas C. Herlache, Madison, WI (US);
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for controlling crown gall disease in plants using an effective quantity of α-proteobacteria that produces trifolitoxin (TFX). The present invention also provides a biocontrol agent for use in the above method, and a plant coated with the biological control agent. The biocontrol agent is characterized as a biologically pure culture of an α-proteobacteria strain that produces TFX, or an α-proteobacteria strain genetically engineered to produce TFX. The α-proteobacteria strain employed may include any one of the many strains ofcapable of producing crown galls, includingand, in particular,F2/5. The α-proteobacteria strain employed may be genetically engineered to produce TFX by introducing a genetic construct into theso as to cause theto carry and express the tfx operon from. The bacteria may also be genetically engineered to produce TFX by introducing a pT2TFXK plasmid into the. The biocontrol agent may also be the strainF2/5 (pT2TFXK), ATCC Patent Deposit Designation PTA-2356.