Rice containing endophytic bacteria and method of producing it
First Claim
1. A rice plant produced by artificially introducing an endophytic bacterium into a rice plant that is free of endophytic bacteria, wherein said introduced endophytic bacteria is Herbaspirillum FERM BP-10395 or Azospirillum FERM BP-10447, which have been deposited in the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a rice plant that shows enhanced growth and increased seed production, which also enables reduction of the use of chemical fertilizers.
In the present invention, a nitrogen-fixing endophytic bacterium is isolated from bacteria symbiotically inhabiting natural plants, the isolated endophytic bacterium is artificially proliferated and then artificially inoculated into rice plants, and thus, the nitrogen-fixing endophytic bacteria are allowed to infect to rice plants.
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12 Claims
- 1. A rice plant produced by artificially introducing an endophytic bacterium into a rice plant that is free of endophytic bacteria, wherein said introduced endophytic bacteria is Herbaspirillum FERM BP-10395 or Azospirillum FERM BP-10447, which have been deposited in the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
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4. An isolated bacterium selected from the group consisting of a bacterium deposited as accession number FERM BP-10395 and a bacterium deposited as accession number FERM BP-10447, both deposited at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
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5. A method for introducing an endophytic bacterium into a rice plant, comprising the following steps of:
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isolating and proliferating an endophytic bacterium which inhabits a plant; artificially inoculating the artificially proliferated endophytic bacteria into the rice plant; and infecting the rice plant with the artificially inoculated endophytic bacteria to form a symbiosis, wherein said introduced endophytic bacteria is Herbaspirillum FERM BP-10395 or Azospirillum FERM BP-10447, which have been deposited in the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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