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Title:
SYSTEMIC NON-NODULAR ENDOSYMBIOTIC NITROGEN FIXATION IN PLANTS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2003020014
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
Non-leguminous crops, e.g. wheat, maize and rice, do not form nodules and are dependant for their nutrition on fixed nitrogen from the soil, or from chemical/nitrogenous fertilizers. The present invention provides non-leguminous plants and leguminous plants, including legumes that fail to nodulate with Rhizobia, with bacteria that enable them to fix nitrogen endophytically. Therefore, the plants contain nitrogen fixing bacteria the bacteria being located intracellularly in living plant cells.

Inventors:
COCKING EDWARD CHARLES DANIEL (GB)
Application Number:
PCT/GB2002/003978
Publication Date:
November 27, 2003
Filing Date:
August 30, 2002
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Assignee:
UNIV NOTTINGHAM (GB)
COCKING EDWARD CHARLES DANIEL (GB)
International Classes:
A01H17/00; A23L25/00; (IPC1-7): A01H17/00
Domestic Patent References:
WO1993020685A11993-10-28
Foreign References:
EP0237683A11987-09-23
Other References:
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