Agricultural-chemical-producing endosymbiotic bacteria and method of preparing and using same.

摘要

A method of producing hybrid agricultural-chemical-producing bacteria capable of entering into endosymbiotic relationships with a plant host has been discovered which comprises fusion of agricultural-chemical-producing bacteria and a plant-infecting bacterial species for the plant host (sometimes referred to as "infecting bacteria") and selecting from the products of the fusion process those bacteria capable of producing an agricultural chemical and of entering into an endosymbiotic relationship with the plant host without creating manifestations of disease in the plant host.