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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6664100 | Conversion of organic waste into humic products using multiple aerobic fermentations for soils restoration A method for converting organic solid waste into humic products and the corresponding apparatus, in which a preliminary aerobic fermentation of the organic solid waste is performed, followed by a second aerobic fermentation of the organic waste in the pre... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6013254 | Method for enhancing oxidation of methyl bromide with strain IMB-1 (ATCC 202197) during agricultural fumigations A method is provided for enhancing oxidation of methyl bromide during agricultural fumigations of fields using a fumigant containing methyl bromide. The method comprises adding a methylotrophic bacterium to the soil in an amount effective to provide bacte... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5792622 | Assay for chemicals A microbiological assay for chemicals, which uses a cell and a reducing dye to quantitatively measure inhibition of electron transport in the cell membrane as a function of chemicals in the substance being tested, is disclosed. This assay and method is re... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5792617 | Cell proliferation-based amplified detection of analytes A test kit and method for the highly sensitive detection of specific analytes in a sample is provided. The presence of the analyte in the sample results in a decrease in the concentration of a growth inhibiting substance leading to proliferation of cells ... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5622846 | Biotechnological process for the preparation of cyclic-s--imino carboxylic acids and r--imino carboxamides Microorganisms of interest are capable of utilizing -imino carboxamides, in the form of the racemate or of its optically active isomers, of the general formula ##STR1## wherein A together with --NH-- and --CH-- is an optionally substituted 5- ... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5586411 | Method of preparing a seed treatment composition Methods and compositions for increasing the availability of soluble phosphate and fixed nitrogen for legume:Rhizobium symbioses involving co-inoculating legume seeds with a phosphate-solubilizing soil fungus, Penicillium bilaii, and Rhizobium spp. prior t... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5549718 | Substance with lipo-oligosaccharide structure capable of acting as plant-specific symbiotic signals, processes for producing them and their applications An essentially pure substance has a structure of a Nod factor or one of its analogues. The Nod factor is characterized by the fact that its biosynthesis is controlled by at least one nodulation gene (nodA,B,C) common to the Rhizobiaceae, in particular to ... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5545538 | Method of producing vitamin B12 using rhizobium cobalaminogenum ferm BP-4429 There is provided an economical, efficient and industrially useful method of producing vitamin B12 which comprises cultivating a microorganism belonging to Rhizobium cobalaminogenum FERM BP-4429 which is capable of producing vitamin B12 | 08/13/1996 |
| 5538888 | Culture of Rhizobium cobalaminogenum capable of producing vitamin B12 and mutants thereof There is provided an economical, efficient and industrially useful method of producing vitamin B12 which comprises cultivating a microorganism belonging to Rhizobium cobalaminogenum which is capable of producing vitamin B12 in a cult... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5484718 | Nodulation gene promoter The invention includes a consensus nucleotide sequence found in the promoter regions of those Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium nodulation genes which are activated by chemical inducer(s) in legume exudate. A promoter comprising the consensus sequence is a leg... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5432079 | Method for selecting mutants of legume-nodulating bacteria enhanced in competition Methods for the isolation of mutant rhizobial strains with improved competition of nodulation (Comp+) is presented. Mutants are selected for constitutive expression of inducible nod genes (in the absence of inducer) and screened for hyperinduct... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5427785 | Rhizosheric bacteria A bacterial inoculum including a rhizospheric bacterium with increased dicarboxylic acid membrane permease activity.... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5244803 | Process for preparing optically active 3-phenylglycidic acid esters There is disclosed a process for preparing optically active 3-phenylglycidic acid ester compound, which comprises permitting a culture broth, cells or treated cells of a microorganism having an ability of stereoselectively hydrolyzing a (2R, 3S)-3-phenylg... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5229113 | Bradyrhizobium japonicum nodulation inducing factor The chemical compounds that induce expression of nodulation genes of Bradyrhizobium japonicum strains have been identified. The isoflavones daidzein and genistein were identified as soybean exudate components that induce nod-genes. Other isoflavones, incl... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5229291 | Rhizobia transformants which symbiotically fixes nitrogen in non-legumes, a material for treating seeds of a non-legume plant, non-legume seeds, a non-legume plant and a method for producing rhizobia transconjungants Rhizobia transformants that nodulate and fix nitrogen in non-legumes. The nodulated non-legume plants can be grown without nitrogenous fertilizer and have at least the same or higher protein content, dry matter content and nitrogen content than their non-... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5229114 | Approaches useful for the control of root nodulation of leguminous plants A novel approach for the increased dinitrogen fixation of leguminous plants wherein the root nodulation of the leguminous plant is controlled so as to promote nodulation by a desired bradyrhizobial strain and to inhibit nodulation of an undesired bradyrhi... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5183759 | Recombinant Rhizobium bacteria inoculants The sequences of a Rhizobium bacteria responsible for competitiveness with respect to plant nodulation have been isolated and permanently transferred to superior nodulating Rhizobium genome. This has resulted in a stable construct that can form a plant in... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5173424 | Enhancing modulation ability of Rhizobium japonicum by incubation with soybean lectin The nodulation ability and/or competition characteristics of strains of Rhizobium japonicum is enhanced by incubating the strains in a nodulation and/or competitive enhancing effective amount of one or more soybean lectins, or in composition comprising a ... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5143846 | Protease deficient bacterial hosts E. coli mutants which are capable of expressing cloned proteins in a highly stable manner are described.... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5141745 | Nodulation inducing factors Nodulation gene-inducing factors have been isolated and identified. A number of substituted flavones, some of which are components of exudates and extracts of leguminous plants, have been found to induce expression of certain nodulation genes in Rhizobium... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5137816 | Rhizobial diagnostic probes and rhizobium trifolii nifH promoters This invention provides useful promoters from the R. trifolii nifH gene for the construction of recombinant molecules to regulate foreign genes for expression under desired conditions. In particular, the promoters act to control expression of the foreign ... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5134067 | Type II restriction endonuclease RleAI The type II restriction endonuclease RleAI has the following recognition sequence: ##STR1## cleaves DNA at the cleavage site indicated by the arrows, and is preferably obtainable from microorganisms of the genus Rhizobium. It can be used to reco... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5126263 | Utilization of plant protoplasts Plant protoplasts are exposed for interaction with an external agent by exposing the plasma membrane of protoplasts in the root hairs of the plant without release of protoplasts from the plant. This may be achieved by enzymatically degrading the plant cel... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5085588 | Bacterial promoters inducible by plant extracts Novel constructs are provided containing DNA fragments comprising a Rhizobium nodulation gene divergent transcriptional initiation regulatory region. The region is responsive to plant exudate in the presence of a nod D gene product. When associated with p... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5059534 | Rhizobium japonicum 191 NODD-related genes The isolation and characterization of nodD-related genes in soybean nodulating Rhizobium japonicum is described. In R. japonicum USDA 191 two such genes have been identified, which although related in structure, have different functional properties. These... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5059533 | Rhizobial ferredoxin genes Rhizobial ferredoxin genes and proteins are provided. Rhizobial ferredoxins are useful to enhance the nitrogenase systems of rhizobia. Useful rhizobial ferredoxin diagnostic segments are also provided comprising DNA sequences encoding the characteristic f... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5045461 | Method for increasing yield and nodulation by bradyrhizobium A method of increasing nodulation of a plant capable of being nodulated by Bradyrhizobium sp. (Parasponis) is provided comprising infecting said plant with a Bradyrhizobium sp. (Parasponia) species mutated such that nodK is non-functional. One such method... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5041383 | Rhizobium inoculants A method is disclosed for producing novel strains of Rhizobium bacteria for legume inoculants which are both competitive and have high nitrogen fixation characteristics. The method involves first isolating and identifying the naturally predominant strains... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5023180 | Bradyrhizobium japonicum nodulation regulatory protein and gene Nodulation regulatory genes (nodD genes) of Bradyrhizobium japonicum strains have been isolated and sequenced. Recombinant DNA molecules and vectors containing these regulatory genes are described. These genes, molecules and vectors are useful in the gene... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5021076 | Enhancement of nitrogen fixation with Bradyrhizobium japonicum mutants A prototrophic revertant of a Bradyrhizobium japonicum tryptophan auxotroph was isolated and found to fix more nitrogen symbiotically than wild-type bacteria. The increase in nitrogen fixation is due to an increase in nodule mass because of an increase in... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5021344 | Application of antibiotics of the phleomycin family as selection agent in the field of genetic engineering A method of transforming eukaryotic or prokaryotic hosts sensitive to an antibiotic of the phleomycin family to confer resistance to the antibiotic is disclosed in which a phleomycin resistance gene is used as a selectable marker.... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4983519 | Recombinant DNA clones of essential nodulation genes of bradyrhizobium japonicum Recombinant DNA clones according to the invention contain nodABCDIJL genes of B. japonicum. These clones can be used to practice a method wherein a nod- strain of Rhizobium or Bradyrhizobium bacteria lacking one or more of these genes is converted to a no... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4966847 | Recombinant DNA clones containing a broad host range gene from Bradyrhizobium japonicum Recombinant DNA clones according to the invention contain a host range gene of B. japonicum which is contained within a 3.3 kb HindIII restriction fragment from the B. japonicum chromosome. Mutations to this gene change the ability of the bacteria to nodu... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4954439 | Multiribbon microbial cellulose The present invention comprises a biologically pure culture of a cellulose-producing microorganism, preferably a prokaryote. This cellulose-producing microorganism is capable, during fermentation in an aqueous nutrient medium containing assimilable source... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4863866 | Bradyrhizobium japonicum mutants exhibiting superior soybean nodulation Mutant strains of Bradyrhizobium japonicum having enhanced nodulation properties were created by transposon mutagenesis of known Bradyrhizobium japonicum strain I-110. The mutant strains grow well in a yeast-extract mannitol medium, produce extracellular ... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4853331 | Cloning and expression of Bacillus thuringiensis toxin gene toxic to beetles of the order Coleoptera The toxin gene encoding a protein toxic to beetles of the order Coleoptera, named M-7, has been cloned and expressed. M-7 is a novel Bacillus thuringiensis strain which has been deposited with a recognized culture repository. The microbe is now known as B... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4818696 | Rhizobium japonicum symbiosis gene transfer A symbiosis plasmid from a fast-growing Rhizobium japonicum donor strain can be transferred to Rhizobium recipient strains, the recipient strains being previously incapable of forming an effective symbiotic relationship with plants of certain Glycine (e.g... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4755468 | Inocula of low water activity with improved resistance to temperature and rehydration, and preparation thereof Inocula having a long storage life and improved resistance to temperature and rehydration and a method of preparing them are disclosed. The method of the invention comprises admixing a culture medium containing microorganisms of the genus Rhizobium and at... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4720460 | Process for preserving acid producing bacteria and compositions produced thereby Described is a method to stabilize or preserve acid-producing bacteria in a buffered solution. A carrier may be added that is not a specific substrate for the bacteria in order to give texture, most preferably the carrier being polyethylene glycol or sodi... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4686184 | Gene transfer vector A Tn-Mob element is provided comprising a transposon with a Mob-site inserted therein. Vectors and bacterial strains are provided containing the Tn-Mob element, as well as methods for its use. Such methods include the production of plasmid free bacterial ... | 08/11/1987 |
