Patents by Inventor Elena GONZÁLEZ BIOSCA

Elena GONZÁLEZ BIOSCA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10508266
    Abstract: A method is for prevention and/or biological control of wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, by use of suitable bacteriophages. In addition a method uses the structural characterisation, genome sequence and activity of three specific lytic bacteriophages of R. solanacearum. Podovirus presents an elevated stability between 4° C. and 30° C. in an aqueous medium in the absence of a host. As a result of the high level of stability, lytic activity, elevated specificity towards R. solanacearum and the absence of activity against the microbiota associated with the plants to be protected, bacteriophages are used for the biological control of R. solanacearum in river courses and irrigation water, as well as in a method for preventing and/or controlling the wilt produced by the bacteria, in which at least one of the bacteriophages, or combinations thereof, are delivered to the plants and/or the soil in the irrigation water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA (ESTUDI GENERAL), INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS (IVIA)
    Inventors: Elena González Biosca, María Milagros López González, María Belén Álvarez Ortega
  • Publication number: 20180312814
    Abstract: A method is for prevention and/or biological control of wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, by use of suitable bacteriophages. In addition a method uses the structural characterisation, genome sequence and activity of three specific lytic bacteriophages of R. solanacearum. Podovirus presents an elevated stability between 4° C. and 30° C. in an aqueous medium in the absence of a host. As a result of the high level of stability, lytic activity, elevated specificity towards R. solanacearum and the absence of activity against the microbiota associated with the plants to be protected, bacteriophages are used for the biological control of R. solanacearum in river courses and irrigation water, as well as in a method for preventing and/or controlling the wilt produced by the bacteria, in which at least one of the bacteriophages, or combinations thereof, are delivered to the plants and/or the soil in the irrigation water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Elena GONZÁLEZ BIOSCA, María Milagros LÓPEZ GONZÁLEZ, María Belén ÁLVAREZ ORTEGA