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Definitions

• the invention relates to modified biocontrol agents and populations that have improved properties.
• Plant diseases and pests need to be controlled to maintain the quality and quantity of food, feed, and fiber produced by growers around the world. Plant diseases are mainly caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses and nematodes. Plant pests include chewing, sucking and piercing insects from the Lepdoptera, Coleoptera, and Hemiptera, among others. Chemical pesticides are widely used in farming to protect crops from such pests and diseases. These chemical products fight crop pests, diseases, and weeds, resulting in improved yield. Without crop protection and pest control, food production and the quality of food produced would decline. However, the use of chemical pesticides does impose a level of risk as many have properties that can endanger health and the environment if not used properly.
• Pesticide resistance is the decreased susceptibility of a pest population to a control agent at doses that once killed most individuals of the species. Therefore, new products are needed with different modes of action to aid in resistance management.
• microorganisms can act as natural antagonists of various plant pathogens and pests. Interactions between plant hosts and microorganisms that lead to biocontrol can include antibiosis, competition, induction of host resistance, and predation. Screening and testing isolates have yielded a number of candidates for commercialization. Microbial biopesticides represent an important option for the management of plant diseases and pests. There is a need for biological control agents that are able to compete in field conditions particularly in the presence of herbicides and fungicides that are commonly used in commercial farming and can have antibiotic effects on microorganisms.
• compositions and methods for improving the ability of a population of biological agents or biocontrol agents to compete and survive in a field setting are provided.
• the modified population of agents is able to grow, compete with other microbial strains and fungi, and provide protection for plants from pathogens.
• modified biological control agents promote plant growth and yield.
• modified biological agents and modified populations of such agents that are biocide-tolerant or -resistant; herbicide-tolerant or -resistant; fungicide-tolerant or -resistant; pesticide-tolerant or -resistant; or tolerant or resistant to crop protection chemicals are selected or engineered. In this manner, the protection of crops from disease- causing agents or pests is enhanced.
• the modified biological agents are able to grow in the presence at least one herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical that is used in commercial farming. Such modified biological agents are able to grow and reproduce in soils where such herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, or other crop protection chemicals have been applied.
• the modified biological agents render the soils suppressive or resistant to disease-causing pathogens or pests.
• Such modified populations of biological agents can be added to soils to prevent fungal pathogens and the diseases they cause, or to inhibit feeding by insect pests or nematodes, promoting plant growth and increasing crop yield.
• compositions of the invention include selected or engineered biological agents and modified populations of biocontrol agents.
• modified biological agents can be used as an inoculant or as a seed coating for plants and seeds. They can also be applied as a spray application directly to the aerial parts of plants, and can be mixed with the herbicide or other chemical to which they have been modified to become tolerant.
• the presence of the modified biological agents under field conditions enhances resistance of the plants to pathogens and promotes plant growth.
• modified biological agents of the invention can be used with other agents to promote plant growth and yield.
• a method for improving a biocontrol agent comprising modifying said biocontrol agent to be resistant to at least one herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical.
• biocontrol agent is modified by growing in the presence of a herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical to select a resistant strain.
• biocontrol agent is modified by transforming said biocontrol agent with a gene that confers resistance to said herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical.
• biocontrol agent is a bacterial biocontrol agent.
• biocontrol agent is selected from the group consisting of Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Agrobacterium, Lysobacter, Trichoderma, Paecilomyces, Gliocladium, Ampelomyces, Pythium, Metschnikowia, Chromobacterium, Penicillium, Coniothyrium, Chaetomium, Myrothecium,
• Lactobacillus, Paenibacillus, Xanthomonas genera Lactobacillus, Paenibacillus, Xanthomonas genera.
• herbicide is selected from the group consisting of glyphosate, glufosinate (glutamine synthase inhibitor), sulfonylurea and imidazolinone herbicides (branched chain amino acid synthesis inhibitors).
• a modified biocontrol agent wherein said biocontrol agent has been selected under herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical pressure and is resistant to said herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical.
• modified biocontrol agent of embodiment 9 wherein said modified biocontrol agent is a bacterial biocontrol agent.
• said biocontrol agent is selected from the group consisting of Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Agrobacterium,
• Lysobacter Trichoderma, Paecilomyces, Gliocladium, Ampelomyces, Pythium,
• Myrothecium Aureobasidium, Pantoea, Burkholderia, Streptomyces, Variovorax, Pasteuria, Xanthomonas genera.
• a recombinant biocontrol agent wherein said biocontrol agent has been transformed with a herbicide resistance gene rendering the biocontrol agent herbicide resistant.
• Pseudomonas is Pseudomonas fluorescens or Pseudomonas chlororaphis.
• a modified population of biocontrol agents wherein the population substantially comprises the biocontrol agent of any one of embodiments 1-20.
• a formulation for controlling a plant pathogen said formulation comprising a modified population of biocontrol agents, wherein said biocontrol agents are herbicide resistant, and a suitable carrier.
• a method for improving the ability of a biocontrol agent to compete in a field setting comprising modifying said biological agent such that said modified biocontrol agent is able to grow in the presence of a herbicide.
• a method for promoting plant growth comprising applying a composition comprising a modified population of biocontrol agents to the soil where said plant is growing.
• a method for growing a plant comprising applying to a crop, a seed or an area of cultivation a combination of an effective amount of a biocide and an effective amount of a modified biocontrol agent wherein
• the effective amount of the biocide is such as to selectively control an organism of interest while the crop is not significantly damaged;
• the effective amount of the modified biocontrol agent is sufficient to result in a statistically significant increase in plant health, yield and/or growth when compared to the plant health, yield and/or growth that occurs when the same concentration of a non-modified biocontrol agent is applied in combination with the effective amount of the biocide.
• biocontrol agent comprises the strain deposited as NRRL No. B-50897.
• biocontrol agent comprises the strain AIP050999 deposited as NRRL No. B-50999 and the biocide is glufosinate.
• a cultured population of a biocontrol agent wherein said cultured population is produced by growing a population of agents under herbicide, fungicide, pesticide or a crop protection chemical pressure to select a purified culture of biocontrol agents that are resistant to said herbicide, fungicide, pesticide or other crop protection chemical.
• biocontrol agent 39 The cultured population of the biocontrol agent of embodiment 38, wherein said biocontrol agent is present in an effective amount sufficient to improve plant health, growth or yield in the presence of an agricultural field application rate of a biocide.40.
• Figure 1 provides a growth curve of the various strains in the presence of glyphosate.
• a biological agent or biocontrol agent for purposes of the present invention is used to describe a microorganism that is used to control disease-causing plant pathogens and plant pests.
• the biological control agents of the invention have been modified such that they are able to grow in the presence of at least one biocide.
• a biocide is a chemical substance which can exert a controlling effect on an organism by chemical or biological means.
• Biocides include pesticides, such as fungicides; herbicides; insecticides, other crop protection chemicals, and the like.
• compositions of the invention include one or more isolated biocontrol agents that has been selected for resistance to biocides such as a herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical; a recombinant biocontrol agent that has been transformed to contain a herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical resistant gene; a modified population of biocontrol agents wherein the population is resistant to at least one herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical; and compositions comprising these modified populations of biocontrol agents.
• the modified population may comprise microorganisms that have been selected for herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical resistance or have been transformed with a gene that confers resistance or tolerance to such herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical.
• the invention comprises substantially pure cultures, or biologically pure cultures, of such modified biocontrol agents or modified biological agents.
• a "biologically pure bacterial culture” refers to a culture of bacteria containing no other bacterial species in quantities to be detected by normal bacteriological techniques. Stated another way, it is a culture wherein virtually all of the bacterial cells present are of the selected strain.
• a modified biocontrol agent includes biocontrol agents that have acquired a trait due to selection pressure and recombinant biocontrol agents that have been transformed with a gene that confers resistance or tolerance to at least one herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical.
• the invention further encompasses a particular modified biological control agent.
• a particular modified biological control agent includes AIP1620.
• AIP1620 is a Pseudomonas strain that has been selected for glyphosate tolerance.
• Additional agents include AIP050999.
• AIP050999 is a Pseudomonas strain that has been selected for glufosinate tolerance.
• AIP1620 was deposited with the Patent Depository of the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1815 North University Street, Peoria, Illinois 61604 U.S.A. on January 31, 2014 and assigned NRRL No. B-50897.
• AIP050999 was deposited with the Patent Depository of the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1815 North University Street, Peoria, Illinois 61604 U.S.A. on January 23, 2015 and assigned NRRL No. B-50999. Each of these deposits will be maintained under the terms of the Budapest Treaty on the
• herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical tolerance or herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical resistance is intended the ability of an organism (i.e, the plant, the biocontrol agent, the biocontrol bacterial agent, ect.) to survive and reproduce following exposure to a dose of the herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical that is normally lethal to the wild type organism.
• Bio agents or biocontrol agents of the invention include microorganisms and fungi that control disease-causing plant pathogens and promote plant health, growth, and yield. Any of these biological or biocontrol agents can be modified by selection or transformation and produce a modified biological or biocontrol agent or recombinant biological or biocontrol agent. Thus, the invention encompasses an isolated modified biocontrol agent.
• the modified biocontrol agents can be grown to produce a population of biocontrol agents.
• modified population of biological or biocontrol agents is intended a population of agents that substantially comprises a culture of the selected agent or the recombinant agent having the trait of interest such as resistance to a herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical.
• the modified or recombinant biocontrol agents can be grown to produce a biologically pure culture. It is recognized that such biologically pure cultures can be used together to enhance plant health, growth, or yield.
• Any biological or biocontrol agent can be used in the methods of the invention.
• Particular microorganisms of interest include strains of the bacteria Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Agrobacterium, Lysobacter, Gliocladium, Pythium, Chromobacterium,
• Fungi of interest include Aureobasidium, Ampelomyces, Beauveria, Metarhizium, Metschnikowia, Myrothecium, Lecanicillium, Chaetomium, Cordyceps, Coniothyrium, Dactylella, Gliocladium, Aspergillis,
• Paecilomyces, Trichoderma, Pisolithus, Glomus, etc. See, for example, U.S. Patent Nos. 5,348,742; 5,496,547; 5,756,087; 5,955,348; 6,060,051 ; 6,635,425; and U.S. Patent Publication 20130142759; all of which are herein incorporated by reference. Many biocontrol agents are on the market and any of them can be modified according to the present invention.
• Such agents include: Agrobacterium radiobacter K84; Trichoderma atroviride; Bacillus subtilis GB03; Bacillus firmus 1-1582; Trichoderma asperellum (ICC 012); T gamsii (ICC 080); Bacillus pumilus strain QST 2808; Bacillus subtilis strain QST 713; B. subtilis strain MBI 600; Paecilomyces fumosoroseus; Gliocladium catenulatum; Trichoderma harzianum rifai strain KRL-AG2; Trichoderma harzianum T-22;
• B. subtilis DSM 17231 B. licheniformis DSM 17236; Pythium oligandrum DV 74; Bacillus subtilis GB03; Trichoderma asperellum; T. gamsii;
• Pseudomonas syringae ESC-10 Metschnikowia fructicola; Trichoderma harzianum T-22; Pseudomonas chlororaphis MA 342; B. amyloliquifaciens; Chrombacterium subtsugae strain PRAA4-1 ; B. subtilis amyloliquefaciens FZB24; Penicillium bilaii; Paecilomyces fumosoroseus FE 9901 ; Streptomyces lydicus WYEC 108; P.
• Disease causing pathogens include fungi, bacteria, viruses and nematodes.
• Biocontrol agents of the invention are those that target any of the plant pathogens.
• Target pathogens include but are not limited to Alternaria, Botrytis, Fusarium, Erwinia,
• Pseudomonas Pseudomonas, Xanthomonas, Cercospora, Colletotrichum, Cladosporium, -Erisyphae spp., Microsphaera syringae, Peronospora spp., Plasmopara spp., Phytophthora, Pythium, Rhizoctonia, Diplocarpon, Venturia, Mycosphaerella, Phomopsis, Taphrina, Elsinoe, Sclerotinia, Verticillum, Gnomonia, Fusicladium, Nectria, Phyllosticta,
• Herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical resistance is the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce following exposure to a dose of the herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical that would normally be lethal to the wild type organism or would substantially reduce growth of the wild type organism. Resistance may be induced or identified due to selection or it may be induced through genetic engineering. To identify and produce a modified population of biocontrol agents through selection, the biocontrol agents are grown in the presence of the herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical as the selection pressure.
• Susceptible agents are killed while resistant agents survive to reproduce without competition.
• biocontrol agents are grown in the presence of the herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical
• resistant biocontrol agents successfully reproduce and become dominant in the population, becoming a modified population of biocontrol agents.
• Methods for selecting resistant strains are known and include U.S. Patent Nos. 4,306,027 and 4,094,097, herein incorporated by reference. Therefore, the invention includes a biologically pure culture of a resistant biocontrol strain.
• the resistant strains of the invention have the same identification characteristics as the original sensitive strain except they are significantly more tolerant to the particular herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical. Thus, their
• Herbicides include glyphosate, ACCase inhibitors (Arloxyphenoxy propionate (FOPS)); ALS inhibitors (Sulfonylurea (SU)), Imidazonlinone (IMI), Pyrimidines (PM)); microtubule protein inhibitor (Dinitroaniline (DNA)); synthetic auxins (Phenoxy (P)), Benzoic Acid (BA), Carboxylic acid (CA)); Photosystem II inhibitor (Triazine (TZ)), Triazinone (TN), Nitriles (NT), Benzothiadiazinones (BZ), Ureas (US)); EPSP Synthase inhibitor (glycines (GC)); Glutamine Synthesis inhibitor (Phosphinic Acid (PA)); DOXP synthase inhibitor (Isoxazolidinone (IA)); HPPD inhibitor (Pyrazole (PA)), Triketone (TE)); PPO inhibitors (Diphenylether (DE), N-phenyl
• Pesticides include imidacloprid clothianidin, arylpyrazole compounds
• organophosphates organophosphates, phenyl pyrazole, pyrethoids caramoyloximes, pyrazoles, amidines, halogenated hydrocarbons, carbamates and derivatives thereof, terbufos, chloropyrifos, fipronil, chlorethoxyfos, telfuthrin, carbofuran, imidacloprid, tebupirimfos (5,849,320).
• Fungicides include aliphatic nitrogen fungicides (butylamine, cymoxanil, dodicin, dodine, guazatine, iminoctadine); amide fungicides (benzovindiflupyr, carpropamid, chloraniformethan, cyflufenamid, diclocymet, diclocymet, dimoxystrobin, fenaminstrobin, fenoxanil, flumetover, furametpyr, isofetamid, isopyrazam, mandestrobin,
• acylamino acid fungicides (benalaxyl, benalaxyl-M, furalaxyl, metalaxyl, metalaxyl-M, pefurazoate, valifenalate); anilide fungicides (benalaxyl, benalaxyl-M, bixafen, boscalid, carboxin, fenhexamid, fluxapyroxad, isotianil, metalaxyl, metalaxyl-M, metsulfovax, ofurace, oxadixyl, oxycarboxin, penflufen, pyracarbolid, sedaxane, thifluzamide, tiadinil, vanguard); benzanilide fung
• valinamide fungicides (benthiavalicarb, iprovalicarb); antibiotic fungicides (aureofungin, blasticidin-S, cycloheximide, griseofulvin, kasugamycin, moroxydine, natamycin, polyoxins, polyoxorim, streptomycin, validamycin); strobilurin fungicides (fluoxastrobin, mandestrobin); methoxyacrylate strobilurin fungicides (azoxystrobin, bifujunzhi, coumoxystrobin, enoxastrobin, flufenoxystrobin, jiaxiangjunzhi, picoxystrobin, pyraoxystrobin); methoxycarbanilate strobilurin fungicides (pyraclostrobin,
• strobilurin fungicides methoxyiminoacetate strobilurin fungicides (kresoxim- methyl, trifloxystrobin); aromatic fungicides (biphenyl, chlorodinitronaphthalenes, chloroneb, chlorothalonil, cresol, dicloran, fenjuntong, hexachlorobenzene, pentachlorophenol, quintozene, sodium pentachlorophenoxide, tecnazene, trichlorotrinitrobenzenes); arsenical fungicides (asomate, urbacide); aryl phenyl ketone fungicides (metrafenone, pyriofenone); benzimidazole fungicides (albendazole, benomyl, carbendazim, chlorfenazole, cypendazole, debacarb,
• dichlorophenyl dicarboximide fungicides chlorozolinate, dichlozoline, iprodione, isovaledione, myclozolin, procymidone, vinclozolin
• phthalimide fungicides captafol, captan, ditalimfos, folpet, thiochlorfenphim
• dinitrophenol fungicides binapacryl, dinobuton, dinocap, dinocap-4, dinocap-6, meptyldinocap, dinocton, dinopenton, dinosulfon, dinoterbon, DNOC
• dithiocarbamate fungicides (amobam, asomate, azithiram, carbamorph, cufraneb, cuprobam, disulfiram, ferbam, metam, nabam, tecoram, thiram, urbacide, ziram); cyclic dithiocarbamate fungicides (dazomet,
• fumigant fungicides carbon disulfide, cyanogen, dithioether, methyl bromide, methyl iodide, sodium tetrathiocarbonate
• hydrazide fungicides bisimide fungicides
• imidazole fungicides cyazofamid, fenamidone, fenapanil, glyodin, iprodione, isovaledione, pefurazoate, triazoxide
• conazole fungicides imidazoles
• imidazoles imidazoles
• clotrimazole imazalil
• oxpoconazole prochloraz
• triflumizole triflumizole
• morpholine fungicides aldimorph, benzamorf, carbamorph, dimethomorph, dodemorph, fenpropimorph, flumorph, tridemorph
• organophosphorus fungicides ampropylfos, ditalimfos, EBP, edifenphos, fosetyl, hexylthiofos, inezin, iprobenfos, izopamfos, kejunlin, phosdiphen, pyrazophos, tolclofos-methyl, triamiphos
• organotin fungicides decafentin, fentin, tributyltin oxide
• oxathiin fungicides carbboxin, oxycarboxin
• oxazole fungicides oxazole fungicides
• triazolopyrimidine fungicides ametoctradin
• urea fungicides bisentaluron, pencycuron, quinazamid
• zinc fungicides acypetacs-zinc, copper zinc chromate, cufraneb, mancozeb, metiram, polycarbamate, polyoxorim-zinc, propineb, zinc naphthenate, zinc thiazole, zinc trichlorophenoxide, zineb, ziram
• unclassified fungicides acibenzolar, acypetacs, allyl alcohol, benzalkonium chloride, bethoxazin, bromothalonil, chitosan, chloropicrin, DBCP, dehydroacetic acid, diclomezine, diethyl pyrocarbonate, ethylicin, fenaminosulf, fenitropan, fenpropidin, formaldehyde, furfural, hexachloro
• isothiocyanate nitrostyrene, nitrothal-isopropyl, OCH, pentachlorophenyl laurate, 2- phenylphenol, phthalide, piperalin, propamidine, proquinazid, pyroquilon, sodium orthophenylphenoxide, spiroxamine, sultropen, thicyofen, tricyclazole) or mefenoxam.
• recombinant biocontrol agents having resistance to a herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, or other crop protection chemical can be made through genetic engineering techniques and such engineered or recombinant biocontrol agents grown to produce a modified population of biocontrol agents.
• a recombinant biocontrol agent is produced by introducing polynucleotides into the biocontrol host cell by transformation. Methods for transforming microorganisms are known and available in the art. See, generally, Hanahan, D. (1983) Studies on transformation of Escherichia coli with plasmids /. Mol. Biol. 166, 557-77; Seidman, C.E. (1994) In: Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, Ausubel, F.M. et al. eds., John Wiley and Sons, NY; Choi et al. (2006) J. Microbiol. Methods 64:391-397; Wang et al. 2010. /. Chem. Technol. Biotechnol.
• Transformation may occur by natural uptake of naked DNA by competent cells from their environment in the laboratory.
• cells can be made competent by exposure to divalent cations under cold conditions, by electroporation, by exposure to polyethylene glycol, by treatment with fibrous nanoparticles, or other methods well known in the art.
• Herbicide resistance genes for use in transforming a recombinant biocontrol agent include, but are not limited to, fumonisin detoxification genes (U.S. Patent No. 5,792,931); acetolactate synthase (ALS) mutants that lead to herbicide resistance, in particular the sulfonylurea-type herbicides, such as the S4 and/or Hra mutations; inhibitors of glutamine synthase such as phosphinothricin or basta (e.g., bar gene); and glyphosate resistance (EPSPS gene)); and HPPD resistance (WO 96/38576, U.S. Patent Nos. 6,758,044;
• the bar gene encodes resistance to the herbicide basta
• the nptll gene encodes resistance to the antibiotics kanamycin and geneticin
• the ALS-gene mutants encode resistance to the sulfonylurea herbicides including chlorsulfuron, metsulfuron, sulfometuron, nicosulfuron, rimsulfuron, flazasulfuron, sulfosulfuron, and triasulfuron
• the imadizolinone herbicides including imazethapyr, imazaquin, imazapyr, and imazamethabenz.
• the modified populations of biological control agents of the invention can be formulated as wettable powders, dusts, granules, aqueous or oil based liquid products, and the like. Such formulations will comprise the modified biological control agents in addition to carriers and other agents.
• the formulations can be used as field inoculants for biocontrol, seed coatings, etc. That is, the modified biocontrol populations can be used in any manner known in the art, including coating seeds with an effective amount of the modified agents, in furrow application of the modified biocontrol populations directly into the soil, in foliar application, mixing into a potting mixture, and in post-harvest disease control. Such methods are known in the art and are described, for example, in U.S. Patent No. 5,348,742 and in published European Application EP0472494 A2, both of which are herein incorporated by reference. Biocontrol includes management of resident populations of organisms and introductions of specific organisms to reduce disease.
• the biocontrol agent provided herein can be mixed with a fungicide, insecticide, or herbicide to enhance its activity or the activity of the chemical to which it has been added.
• the combination of the biocontrol agent and chemical may show synergistic activity, where the mixture of the two exceeds that expected from their simple additive effect.
• the modified biological control agents of the invention can be used to significantly reduce disease, to promote plant growth and yield, and to reduce reliance on traditional pesticides.
• the modified agents of the invention can be used with other pesticides for an effective integrated pest management program.
• the modified biocontrol populations can be mixed in formulation with known pesticides in a manner described in WO 94/10845, herein incorporated by reference.
• the modified biocontrol populations are applied in an effective amount.
• An effective amount of a modified biocontrol population is an amount sufficient to control or inhibit the pathogen.
• the effective amount of the modified biocontrol agent is an amount sufficient to promote or increase plant health, growth or yield in the presence of an agricultural field application rate of a biocide.
• the rate of application of the modified biocontrol agent and/or the biocide may vary according to the pathogen being targeted, the crop to be protected, the efficacy of the modified biocontrol populations, the severity of the disease, the climate conditions, and the like. Generally for a field inoculation, the rate of modified biocontrol agent application is 10 12 to 10 16 colony forming units (CFU) per hectare.
• the rate of modified biocontrol agent application is 3 x 10 15 to 1 x 10 17 colony forming units (CFU) per hectare. (This corresponds to about 30 kg to 1000 kg of active ingredient per hectare if the a.i. is 100 billion CFU per g.).
• the rate of modified biocontrol agent application is 3 x 10 15 to 1 x 10 17 colony forming units (CFU) per hectare; about lxlO 12 to about lxlO 13 colony forming units (CFU) per hectare, about lxlO 13 to about lxlO 14 colony forming units (CFU) per hectare, about lxlO 14 to about lxlO 15 colony forming units (CFU) per hectare, about lxlO 15 to about lxlO 16 colony forming units (CFU) per hectare or about lxlO 16 to about 1x10 colony forming units (CFU) per hectare.
• the rate of modified biocontrol agent application is at least about lxlO 13 , about lxlO 14 , lxlO 15 , about lxlO 16 or about lxlO 17 colony forming units (CFU) per hectare.
• the rate of modified biocontrol agent application is lOg to 50kg, 50kg to 100kg, 100kg to 200kg, 200kg to 300kg, 300kg to 400kg, 400kg, to 500kg, 500kg to 600kg, 600kg to 700kg, 700kg to 800kg, 800kg to 900kg, 900kg to 1000kg of active ingredient per hectare if the a.i. is 100 billion CFU per g.
• the rate of modified biocontrol agent application is at least lOg, 50kg, 100kg, 200kg, 300kg, 400kg, 500kg, 600kg, 700kg, 800kg, 900kg, 1000kg of active ingredient per hectare if the a.i. is 100 billion CFU per g.
• the modified biocontrol agent applied comprises the strain deposited as NRRL No. B-50897 and/or the strain AIP050999 deposited as NRRL No. B-50999.
• Any appropriate agricultural application rate for a biocide can be applied to the crop, for example, an effective amount of the biocide that controls a given organism (i.e., a pest of interest, such as fungus, insects, weeds, disease, ect) may be applied.
• Methods to assay for the effective amount of the modified biocontrol agent include, for example, any statistically significant increase in plant health, yield and/or growth that occurs upon application of an effective amount of the biocontrol agent and a field application rate of a biocide when compared to the plant health, yield and/or growth that occurs when the same concentration of a non-modified biocontrol agent is applied in combination with the effective amount of the biocide.
• a further embodiment of the invention provides a method for controlling or inhibiting the growth of a plant pathogen by applying the population of modified biological control agents of the invention to an environment in which the plant pathogen may grow.
• the application may be to the plant, to parts of the plant, to the seeds of the plants to be protected, or to the soil in which the plant to be protected are growing or will grow.
• Application to the plant or plant parts may be before or after harvest.
• Application to the seeds will be prior to planting of the seeds.
• a crop, area of cultivation, seed and/or weed can be treated with a combination an effective amount of the modified control agent and an effective amount of a biocide.
• treated with a combination of or “applying a combination of modified biocontrol agent and a biocide to a crop, area of cultivation or field it is intended that one or more of a particular field, plant crop, seed and/or weed is treated with one or more of the modified biocontrol agent and one or more biocide so that a desired effect is achieved.
• the application of one or both of the modified biocontrol agent and the biocide can occur prior to the planting of the crop (for example, to the soil, the seed, or the plant).
• the application of the modified biocontrol agent and the biocide may be simultaneous or the applications may be at different times (sequential), so long as the desired effect is achieved.
• the modified biocontrol agent is resistant to glyphosate and further increases plant health, yield or growth when applied in an effective amount
• the biocide comprises glyphosate or an active derivative thereof.
• a seed, plant or area of cultivation is treated with a combination of an effective amount of the modified biocontrol agent that is resistant to glyphosate and an effective amount of glyphosate, wherein the effective amount of glyphosate is such as to selectively control weeds while the crop is not significantly damaged.
• the effective amount of the modified biocontrol agent is sufficient to result in a statistically significant increase in plant health, yield and/or growth when compared to the plant health, yield and/or growth that occurs when the same concentration of a non-modified biocontrol agent is applied in combination with the effective amount of the glyphosate or active derivative thereof.
• the biocontrol agent comprises an effective amount of AIP1620.
• the modified biocontrol agent is resistant to glufosinate and further increases plant health, yield or growth when applied in an effective amount
• the biocide comprises glufosinate or an active derivative thereof.
• a seed, plant or area of cultivation is treated with a combination of an effective amount of the modified biocontrol agent that is resistant to glufosinate and an effective amount of glufosinate, wherein the effective amount of glufosinate is such as to selectively control weeds while the crop is not significantly damaged.
• the effective amount of the modified biocontrol agent is sufficient to result in a statistically significant increase in plant health, yield and/or growth when compared to the plant health, yield and/or growth that occurs when the same concentration of a non- modified biocontrol agent is applied in combination with the effective amount of the glufosinate or active derivative thereof.
• the biocontrol agent comprises an effective amount of AIP050999.
• the term plant includes plant cells, plant protoplasts, plant cell tissue cultures from which plants can be regenerated, plant calli, plant clumps, and plant cells that are intact in plants or parts of plants such as embryos, pollen, ovules, seeds, leaves, flowers, branches, fruit, kernels, ears, cobs, husks, stalks, roots, root tips, anthers, and the like.
• Grain is intended to mean the mature seed produced by commercial growers for purposes other than growing or reproducing the species.
• Progeny, variants, and mutants of the regenerated plants are also included within the scope of the invention, provided that these parts comprise the introduced polynucleotides.
• the modified biocontrol agent can be employed with any plant species, including, but not limited to, monocots and dicots.
• plant species of interest include, but are not limited to, corn (Zea mays), Brassica sp. (e.g., B. napus, B. rapa, B.
• juncea particularly those Brassica species useful as sources of seed oil, alfalfa (Medicago sativa), rice (Oryza sativa), rye (Secale cereale), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, Sorghum vulgare), millet (e.g., pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum), proso millet (Panicum miliaceum), foxtail millet (Setaria italica), finger millet (Eleusine coracana)), sunflower (Helianthus annuus), safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), wheat (Triticum aestivum), soybean (Glycine max), tobacco
• Vegetables include tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum), lettuce (e.g., Lactuca sativa), green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), lima beans (Phaseolus limensis), peas (Lathyrus spp.), and members of the genus Cucumis such as cucumber (C. sativus), cantaloupe (C. cantalupensis), and musk melon (C. melo).
• tomatoes Locopersicon esculentum
• lettuce e.g., Lactuca sativa
• green beans Phaseolus vulgaris
• lima beans Phaseolus limensis
• peas Lathyrus spp.
• members of the genus Cucumis such as cucumber (C. sativus), cantaloupe (C. cantalupensis), and musk melon (C. melo).
• Ornamentals include azalea (Rhododendron spp.), hydrangea (Macrophylla hydrangea), hibiscus (Hibiscus rosasanensis), roses (Rosa spp.), tulips (Tulipa spp.), daffodils (Narcissus spp.), petunias (Petunia hybrida), carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus), poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), and chrysanthemum.
• Conifers that may be employed in practicing the present invention include, for example, pines such as loblolly pine (Pinus taeda), slash pine (Pinus elliotii), ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), and Monterey pine (Pinus radiata); Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii); Western hemlock (Tsuga canadensis); Sitka spruce (Picea glauca); redwood (Sequoia sempervirens); true firs such as silver fir (Abies amabilis) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea); and cedars such as Western red cedar (Thuja plicata) and Alaska yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis).
• pines such as loblolly pine (Pinus taeda), slash pine (P
• plants of the present invention are crop plants (for example, corn, alfalfa, sunflower, Brassica, soybean, cotton, safflower, peanut, sorghum, wheat, millet, tobacco, etc.).
• a corn or soybean plants is employed.
• Example 1 Production of glyphosate resistant mutants of AIP0069.
• glyphosate may inhibit the growth of desirable biological control or plant growth promoting bacteria.
• examples include the herbicides glufosinate (glutamine synthase inhibitor), sulfonylurea and imidazolinone herbicides (branched chain aminio acid synthesis inhibitors) and the antibiotics streptomycin, oxytetracycline and kasugamycin.
• the biological control strain Pseudomonas fluorescens AIP0069 was streaked onto agar plates containing 0 or 5 mM glyphosate.
• the basal medium consisted of 11.3 g Na 2 HP0 4 ' 7H 2 0, 3 g KH 2 PO 4 , 1 g NH 4 C1, 10 g monosodium glutamate, 31 g molasses, 493 mg MgS0 4 7H 2 0, 50 mg ZnS0 4 7H 2 0, 5 mg FeS0 4 7H 2 0, and 0.3 g thiamine per liter of deionized water.
• numerous bacterial colonies were visible after incubating overnight at 25C.
• Example 2 Biological control activity of glyphosate resistant mutants.
• Bacteria were inoculated into 50 ml of broth medium consisting of 11.3 g
• Rhizoctonia solani infested rice grain was produced as described previously (K.A. Holmes and D.M. Benson, 1994. Evaluation of Phytophthora parasitica var. nicotianae as a biocontrol for Phytophthora parasitica on Catharanthus roseus. Plant Disease
• Infested rice was pulverized in a blender and screened through a #10 sieve (2 mm opening). The pulverized grain was mixed with germination medium at the rate of 2 g per liter.
• Impatiens seeds were planted into the infested germination medium in size 402 plug trays, treated with 0.3 ml of resuspended bacteria per plug and grown under standard greenhouse production conditions. There were 2 replicates for each experimental treatment with 20 plugs per replicate. The number of healthy seedlings was assessed after two weeks.
• Table 1 demonstrate that the glyphosate resistant variants AIP0404 and AIP1620 retain full antifungal activity, compared to the progenitor strain, AIP0069.
• the biocontrol strain can be used to control Fusarium head blight, Asian Soybean Rust, Rhizoctonia, Botrytis, Pythium, turf diseases, and the like.
• Genes encoding glyphosate tolerant EPSPS enzymes may be obtained from various bacteria (A. Schulz et al, 1985. Differential sensitivity of bacterial 5- enolpyruvylshikimate- 3 -phosphate synthases to the herbicide glyphosate. FEMS
• a suitable gene is amplified by PCR or made synthetically using techniques well known in the art.
• the open reading frame is cloned into the plasmid vector pKK223-3 (Pharmacia) between the tacl promoter and the rrnB transcriptional terminator.
• the tacl promoter provides strong constitutive expression of genes in Pseudomonas.
• Genomic DNA sequences from strain AIP0069 are incorporated on each side of the promoter - gene - terminator cassette to direct homologous recombination into the AIP0069 chromosome.
• the resulting plasmid is mobilized from E. coli to Pseudomonas fluorescens AIP0069 by conjugation, a technique well known in the art, and selection on defined medium containing 100 mM glyphosate.
• the plasmid contains the narrow host range colEl origin of replication and thus cannot replicate in Pseudomonas. Glyphosate resistant colonies will be obtained when the promoter - gene - terminator cassette integrates into the Pseudomonas chromosome by homologous recombination.
• Single crossover events where the entire plasmid is integrated into the chromosome
• double crossover events where only the desired promoter - gene - terminator cassette is integrated
• PCR Southern blotting, or other techniques well known in the art.
• a double crossover event is selected for use.
• AIP1620 starter cultures were inoculated using colonies from Luria agar plates and grown in 0.1X NBY broth (0.8 g of Difco Nutrient Broth powder and 0.5 g of yeast extract powder per liter of deionized water) and grown at 28C, 250 rpm.
• Production cultures were grown in a broth containing, per liter of deionized water: 11.3 g Na 2 HPC>473 ⁇ 40, 3.0 g KH2PO4, 1.0 g NH4CI, 10 g monosodium glutamate, 3.0 g molasses, 0.49 g MgS0 4 7H 2 0, 50 mg ZnSC>473 ⁇ 40, 5 mg FeSC>473 ⁇ 40 and sufficient hydrochloric acid to adjust the pH to approximately 6.2.
• Fifty ml of production broth was placed in a 250 ml baffled culture flask, inoculated with 0.5 ml of starter culture and incubated at 28C, 250 rpm.
• the production cultures were inoculated at various times and then harvested simultaneously to yield cultures with incubation times of 15, 24, 33, and 43 hours. Forty ml of each culture was harvested by centrifugation. The spent culture broth was discarded and the cells were re-suspended in autoclaved deionized water to 40 ml final volume.
• Fungal inoculum was prepared using the rice grain method described by Holmes and Benson (K.A. Holmes and D.M. Benson, 1994. Evaluation of Phytophthora parasitica var. nicotianae for biocontrol of Phytophthora parasitica on Catharanthus roseus. Plant Disease, 78: 193-199.). Infested rice grains were pulverized in a blender and screened through a #10 sieve. This inoculum was mixed into Fafard superfine
• the inoculated germination mix was placed in 392 greenhouse plug trays
• AIP1620 cells were grown, harvested and re-suspended in autoclaved deionized water essentially as described in EXAMPLE 4 using a culture time of approximately 24 hours.
• the greenhouse germination trials also were performed as described in EXAMPLE 4, but the R. solani inoculum rate varied from 0.25 to 1.0 g of pulverized rice grain per liter of germination mix, depending on the trial.
• the results compiled from 17 trials are shown in Table 3 below and demonstrate consistent performance of AIP1620 in controlling damping off disease.
• AIP1620 cell paste Fifty grams of AIP1620 cell paste was mixed with 50 g of Min-U-Gel 400 or Min- U-Gel 200 attapulgite clay (Active Minerals International, LLC, Sparks, MD) dried to a water activity of less than 0.3. One portion of each formulation was stored at 4°C and another was stored at 22°C. The viability of these formulations was tested at various times by dilution plating and the results are shown in Table 4 below. After 21 days in storage, the samples which had been stored at 4°C were tested in a greenhouse seed germination assay and found to have retained antifungal activity against Rhizoctonia solani.
• Min-U-Gel 400 stored at 5.4 x 10 7 2.0 x 10 6 ⁇ 2.0 x 10 4 22°C
• Min-U-Gel 400 stored at 4°C 1.3 x 10 s 3.5 x 10 s Not tested
• Min-U-Gel 200 stored at 8.2 x 10 s 3.7 x 10 s 7.2 x 10 5 22°C
• Min-U-Gel 200 stored at 4°C 1.8 x 10 1U 9.0 x 10 y Not tested
• AIP1620 cell paste was mixed with 20 g of synthetic calcium silicate (MicroCel E, Imerys Filtration Minerals, Lompoc, CA) using a food processor.
• the resulting material contained 2.7 x 10 10 colony forming units per gram (CFU/g) of AIP1620, as determined by dilution plating.
• This material was dried at 40C to a water activity of less than 0.30 at which time it contained 1.4 x 10 9 CFU/g of
• AIP1620 The dried powder formulation was stored in vacuum sealed mylar pouches at 22C. After 85 days the powder contained 1.1 x 10 6 CFU/g of AIP1620 and retained antifungal activity against Rhizoctonia solani as determined by a greenhouse seed germination assay.
• AIP1620 cell paste was mixed with 5 g of glycerol and 20 g of synthetic calcium silicate using a food processor.
• the resulting material contained 5.7 x 10 11 CFU/g of AIP1620, as determined by dilution plating.
• This material was dried at 40C to a water activity of less than 0.30 at which time it contained 3.1 x 10 9 CFU/g of AIP1620.
• the dried powder formulation was stored in vacuum sealed mylar pouches at 22C. After 61 days the powder contained 6.2 x 10 8 CFU/g of AIP1620 and retained antifungal activity against Rhizoctonia solani as determined by a greenhouse seed germination assay.
• AIP1620 cell paste was mixed with 5 g of trehalose and 20 g of synthetic calcium silicate using a food processor.
• the resulting material contained 5.7 x 10 11 CFU/g of AIP1620, as determined by dilution plating.
• This material was dried at 40C to a water activity of less than 0.30 at which time it contained 4.0 x 10 CFU/g of AIP1620.
• the dried powder formulation was stored in vacuum sealed mylar pouches at 22C. After 54 days the powder contained 2.7 x 10 7 CFU/g of AIP1620.
• EXAMPLE 10 EXAMPLE 10.
• xanthan gum Four grams of xanthan gum and was dispersed into 4 g of soybean oil. The resulting mixture was combined with 100 g of AIP1620 cell paste and allowed to thicken for about 5 minutes at room temperature. The thickened mixture was blended into 20 g of synthetic calcium silicate using a food processor. The resulting material contained 9.4 x 10 11 CFU/g of AIP1620 and was divided into two 50 g portions. One portion was dried at 40C to a water activity of ⁇ 0.30 at which time it contained 7.0 x 10 8 CFU/g of AIP1620.
• Fungal inoculum was prepared using the rice grain method described by Holmes and Benson (K.A. Holmes and D.M. Benson, 1994. Evaluation of Phytophthora parasitica var. nicotianae for biocontrol of Phytophthora parasitica on Catharanthus roseus. Plant Disease, 78: 193-199.). Infested rice grains were pulverized in a blender and screened through a #10 sieve. This inoculum was mixed into Fafard superfine germinating mix at the rate of 0.25 g per liter.
• the inoculated mix was divided and formulated AIP1620 was added at the rate of
• Fungal inoculum was prepared using the rice grain method described by Holmes and Benson (K.A. Holmes and D.M. Benson, 1994. Evaluation of Phytophthora parasitica var. nicotianae for biocontrol of Phytophthora parasitica on Catharanthus roseus. Plant Disease, 78: 193-199.). Infested rice grains were pulverized in a blender and screened through a #10 sieve. This inoculum was mixed into Fafard superfine germinating mix at the rate of 0.25 g per liter.
• the inoculated mix was divided and formulated AIP1620 was added at the rate of 5 g per liter. On the same day, a subsample of each formulation was dilution plated to determine the CFU/g of AIP1620. Impatiens seed were planted into the inoculated and treated mixes. The seeds were germinated under standard greenhouse conditions. After 10 to 14 days the assays were scored by counting the number of healthy seedlings in each treatment. Results are summarized in Table 8 below. Table 7. Composition of formulations
• AIP1620 cell paste Fifty grams of AIP1620 cell paste was mixed with 50 g of Min-U-Gel 400 or Min- U-Gel 200 attapulgite clay (Active Minerals International, LLC, Sparks, MD) dried to a water activity of less than 0.2, and stored at 22C. The viability of these formulations was tested at various times by dilution plating and the results are shown in Table 9 below. After 21 days both formulations were tested in a greenhouse seed germination assay and found to have retained antifungal activity against Rhizoctonia solani. Table 9
• AIP1620 starter cultures were inoculated using colonies from Luria agar plates and grown in 0.1X NBY broth (0.8 g of Difco Nutrient Broth powder and 0.5 g of yeast extract powder per liter of deionized water) and grown at 28C, 250 rpm.
• Production cultures were grown in a broth containing, per liter of deionized water: 11.3 g Na 2 HPC>47H 2 O, 3.0 g KH 2 P0 4 , 1.0 g NH4CI, 10 g monosodium glutamate, 3.0 g molasses, 0.49 g MgS0 4 7H 2 0, 50 mg ZnSC>47 ⁇ 2 0, 5 mg FeSC 7H 2 O and sufficient hydrochloric acid to adjust the pH to approximately 6.2.
• Fifty ml of production broth was placed in a 250 ml baffled culture flask, inoculated with 0.5 ml of starter culture and incubated at 28C, 250 rpm.
• the production cultures were inoculated at various times and then harvested simultaneously to yield cultures with incubation times of 15, 24, 33, and 43 hours. Forty ml of each culture was harvested by centrifugation. The spent culture broth was discarded and the cells were re-suspended in autoclaved deionized water to 40 ml final volume.
• Botrytis cinerea was grown on potato dextrose broth for 1 to 2 weeks without shaking. The resulting mycelial mat was removed from the broth and homogenized in autoclaved deionized water to produce liquid inoculum.
• AIP1620 starter cultures were inoculated using colonies from Luria agar plates and grown in 0. IX NBY broth (0.8 g of Difco Nutrient Broth powder and 0.5 g of yeast extract powder per liter of deionized water) and grown at 28C, 250 rpm.
• Production cultures were grown in a broth containing, per liter of deionized water: 11.3 g Na 2 HPC>473 ⁇ 40, 3.0 g KH2PO4, 1.0 g NH4CI, 10 g monosodium glutamate, 3.0 g molasses, 0.49 g MgS0 4 7H 2 0, 50 mg ZnSC>47H 2 O, 5 mg FeSC>473 ⁇ 40 and sufficient hydrochloric acid to adjust the pH to approximately 6.2.
• Fifty ml of production broth was placed in a 250 ml baffled culture flask, inoculated with 0.5 ml of starter culture and incubated at 28C, 250 rpm.
• the production cultures were inoculated at various times and then harvested simultaneously to yield cultures with incubation times of 15, 24, 33, and 43 hours. Forty ml of each culture was harvested by centrifugation. The spent culture broth was discarded and the cells were re-suspended in autoclaved deionized water to 40 ml final volume.
• Inoculum of P. aphanadermatum was prepared using the rice grain method described by Holmes and Benson (K.A. Holmes and D.M. Benson, 1994. Evaluation of Phytophthora parasitica var. nicotianae for biocontrol of Phytophthora parasitica on Catharanthus roseus. Plant Disease, 78: 193-199.). Infested rice grains were pulverized in a blender and screened through a #10 sieve. This inoculum was mixed into Fafard superfine germinating mix at the rate of 6.0 g per liter (trials 1 - 4) or 7.0 g per liter (trial 5).
• the inoculated germination mix was placed in 392 greenhouse plug trays
• AIP1620 cells were produced as described in the previous examples. Phakopsora pachyrhizi was grown on susceptible soybean plants and ureidinospores were harvested by vacuum suction from infected leaves which manifested erupted pustules (Twizeyimana, M., and Hartman, G. L. 2010. Culturing Phakopsora pachyrhizi on detached leaves and urediniospore survival at different temperatures and relative humidities. Plant Disease 94: 1453-1460).
• Williams 82 soybean plants were grown in plant growth chambers using techniques well known in the art. When plants were at V3 -stage, the first fully expanded trifoliate leaf was sprayed with re-suspended AIP1620 cells, a chemical fungicide standard, or deionized water (inoculated control). One day later the leaves were inoculated with a suspension of P. pachyrhizi ureidinospores (1 x 10 5 /ml). Both inoculation and strain/fungicide were applied using an atomizer attached to an air compressor. The plants were maintained in a growth chamber at 95% RH with a daily cycle of 12 h of light and 12 h of darkness at 21 and 23 °C, respectively.
• Example 17 AIP1620 compatibility with commercial fungicides
• AIP1620 The viability of AIP1620 was measured after mixing the strain 3 commercial fungicides, each containing a different active ingredient (Table 13). Fungicide concentrations were selected to simulate those in a typical tank mix for field application.
• AIP1620 was grown in 3 mL of LB medium in a 10 mL tube for 24 hours at 28°C,
• Example 18 Evaluation of the protectant activity of mixtures of AIP1620 and fungicides against Asian soybean rust caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi.
• Bacteria are inoculated into 50 ml of broth medium consisting of 11.3 g
• Ureidinospores of Phakopsora pachyrhizi are harvested by vacuum suction from leaves infected with the fungus that manifest erupted pustules.
• the spores are re- suspended in water at 10 A 5/mL and inoculated onto detached soybean leaves as an aerosol using an airbrush using techniques known in the art (Twizeyimana, M., and Hartman, G. L. 2010. Culturing Phakopsora pachyrhizi on detached leaves and urediniospore survival at different temperatures and relative humidities. Plant Disease 94: 1453-1460).
• AIP1620 cells re-suspended in water and fungicidal active ingredients are prepared in various ratios comprising 10 ⁇ 6, 10 ⁇ 7, 10 ⁇ 8, 10 ⁇ 9 or 10 ⁇ 10 AIP1620 cells/mL, mixed with fungicidal active ingredient at 1/lOX, 1/3X, 1/2X, or IX normal field use rate, calculated by converting the field rate from the published label to g/mL, based on an assumption about spray volume per hectare or acre.
• the inoculated soybean leaves are treated the biocontrol agent at the titers above, and with the fungicides at the rates above, as well as with mixtures of biocontrol agent and fungicide in various combinations at the titers and rates specified above.
• some inoculated detached leaves are left untreated, or treated with AIP0323 as controls.
• At least 3 leaves (or leaf segments) are used for each treatment of biocontrol agent, chemical, or mixture.
• the detached leaves are incubated in high humidity in a growth chamber on a 12 light, 21°C / 12 hour dark, 23°C. After 10-14 days, the leaves are observed and scored according to the number of visible uredinia/cm A 2.
• Colby's equation is used to determine the fungicidal effects expected from the mixtures. (See Colby, S. R., Calculation of the synergistic and antagonistic response of herbicide combinations. Weeds 1967, 15, 20-22, herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.)
• Example 19 Selection of a population of the biological control strain Pseudomonas fluorescens AIP000069 that has acquired resistance to the herbicide Glufosinate
• M63 Plus medium 50 microliters of AIP000069 culture, grown in 0.5X LB for 24 hours at 28°C, was spread onto plates containing M63 Plus medium with 0 or 100 mM Glufosinate.
• the M63 Plus medium consisted of 13.6 g KH 2 P0 4 , 9.92g C 6 H 12 0 6 , 2g (NH 4 ) 2 S0 4 , 5.5 mg CaCl 2, 0.278mg
• Glufosinate numerous bacterial colonies were visible after incubating plates for 2 days at 28°C. In the presence of 100 mM Glufosinate no colonies were visible after a similar incubation, however, after extended incubation of several days a single colony grew. This colony was streaked to isolation on an M63 agar plate containing 100 mM Glufosinate. The resulting isolate was named AIP050999. Growth of AIP050999 was compared to the parent strain, AIP000069, and a glyphosate resistant version of the strain AIP001620. Results are summarized in the table 15 below.

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