Patents Assigned to FUNDO DE DEFESA DA CITRICULTURA - FUNDECITRUS
  • REPELLENT COMPOSITIONS AND GENETIC APPROACHES FOR CONTROLLING HUANGLONGBING
    Publication number: 20120272405
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for controlling Huanglongbing (HLB) disease of citrus plants through expressing genes encoding synthases for sesquiterpenes such as ?-caryophyllene, and ?-copaene, and combinations thereof, in citrus plants. Methods of controlling HLB comprising applying at least one purified sesquiterpene, which repels Diaphorina citri and/or Tryoza erytrae psyllid insects, so as to control the HLB disease of citrus plants, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicants: INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE IVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS, FUNDO DE DEFESA DA CITRICULTURA - FUNDECITRUS
    Inventors: Berta Alquezar García, Ana Rodriguez Baixauli, Josep Peris Rodrigo, Leandro Peña García, Andréia Enrique, Marcelo Pedreira De Miranda, Pedro Takao Yamamoto, Marcel Bellato Spósito, Nelson Arno Wulff, Diva do Carmo Teixeira, Antonio Juliano Ayres, Newton Cavalcanti De Noronha, JR., José Maurício Simões Bento, José Roberto Postali Parra