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Altering Legume Phenotypes with Seedborne Microbes for Nutrition and Resilience of Pulses as Climate-Proof Crops
This technology leverages seed-associated bacterial endophytes to enhance the traits of tepary beans and other legumes. The inventors developed a novel workflow to isolate and screen beneficial microbes from seeds, allowing for predictive assessment of plant growth benefits such as phosphate solubilization, ammonium production, and siderophore activity....
Published: 9/15/2025
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Inventor(s): Anne Arnold, Caroline Maro, William Duke Pauli, Erica Cortez, Jimaree Legins, Michael Dake
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Crop Improvement
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Controlled Transfer of Endohyphal Symbionts among Fungal Strains
University of Arizona researchers discovered that diverse endophytic fungi were found to harbor endohyphal bacteria (EHB), which live within apparently healthy, viable fungal cells. Differences in suites of EHB between closely related fungal endophytes suggest horizontal transfer of these symbionts in nature. This relationship appears facultative for...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Anne Arnold, Kayla Arendt, David Baltrus
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Crop Improvement
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Identification of Endohyphal Bacterial Symbionts as Major Determinants of Cellulase and Ligninase Activity in Fungi
This technology discloses a method whereby EHB were shown to markedly influence cellulose and ligninase activity in fungi. It can be applied in industries relevant to biofuel development from plant material, remediation, and other industrial processes.
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Plant-associated fungi play important ecological roles as pathogens, mycorrhizae, endophytes,...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Kayla Arendt, Anne Arnold, David Baltrus
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Plant Pathogens
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