AGRICULTURAL-CHEMICAL-PRODUCING ENDOSYMBIOTIC MICROORGANISMS AND METHOD OF PREPARING AND USING SAME

摘要

Hybrid agricultural-chemical-producing microorganisms capable of entering into endosymbiotic relationships with plants are disclosed. The microorganisms are prepared by combining genetic material from an agricultural-chemical-producing microorganism and a plant infecting microorganism to form hybrid microorganisms and selecting from the hybrid microorganisms those hybrid microorganisms which are capable of producing an agricultural chemical, which do not create manifestations of disease in the plant host, and which are capable of entering into an endosymbiotic relationship with the plant host. Methods of use are also disclosed.