PATENT ABSTRACTS

A live vaccine for infectious laryngotracheitis, which comprises culture cells infected with at- tenuated infectious laryngotracheitis virus. Also, a live combined vaccine for infectious laryngotracheitis and Marek's disease, which comprises culture cells infected with attenuated viruses offthese two diseases. These vaccines can be used on day-old (newborn) chicken, by sub- cutaneous or intramuscular injection, to give them immunity from infection by the virus or viruses.

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S T R A I N S O F L A C T O B A C I L L U S F O R E N H A N C I N G F E E D

C O N V E R S I O N E F F I C I E N C Y

Eugene Manfredi, Robert E Miller assigned to Bio Techniques Laboratories Inc

New strains of Lactobacillus capable of ad- hering to the gut epithelial cells of various species of animals and useful as dietary supplements.

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A N A E R O B I C D I G E S T I O N M E T H O D

Yoshi Ohshima, Tsunekazu Watanabe, Keizaburo Watanabe, Noboru Nonoyama, Masayoshi Kitazume, Yukihiro Tomita, Tsukuba, Japan assigned to Public Works Research Institute Ministry of Construction; Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult HonshaFujita Cor- porati

Sewage sludge or an agricultural or fish waste material is subjected to pretreatment in the form of wet mill treatment and then is subjected to anaerobic digestion.

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M E T H O D F O R T H E P R E V E N T I O N O F F U S A R I U M D I S E A S E S A N D

M I C R O O R G A N I S M S U S E D F O R T H E S A M E

Hideyoshi Toyoda, Ryutaro Utsumi, Hirakata, Japan assigned to Daikin Industries Ltd

A method for the prevention of Fusarium dis- eases comprising the application of a micro-

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organism that decomposes or detoxifies fusaric acid to the plant or to the soil. The micro- organisms are the genuses Cladosporium and Pseudomonas that have the ability to decompose and/or detoxify fusaric acid.

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N O V E L L E P I D O P T E R A N - A C T I V E B A C I L L U S T H U R I N G I E N S I S

I S O L A T E

Jewe Payne, George G Soares, Henry W Talbot, Theresa C Olson assigned to Mycogen Corpora- tion

The subject invention concerns a novel and use- ful insecticide with activity against insect pests of the order Lepidoptera. Pests in the order Lepidoptera do heavy damage to crops, e.g., cabbage and broccoli. The insecticide of the sub- ject invention is a novel B. thuringiensis microbe referred to as B.t. PS85A1, or mutants thereof. Specifically disclosed is an asporogenous mutant designated B.t. PS85AI-168. The spores or crystals of B.t. PS85A1, or the crystals of B.t. PS85Al-168, are useful to control lepidopteran pests in various environments.

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M E T H O D O F S T E R I L I Z I N G A N T H E R S

Marat A Fedin, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Leonid Voskoboinik, Tatyana Fedorenko, Alexandra T Prokopenko, Ivan V Martynov, Jury P Belov, Vyacheslav V Kormachev, Oleg A Kolyamshin, Valentin Savchuk, Leonid S Shevnitsyn, Valery V Smirnov, Viktor A Gradov, Sergei I Paklin, Svetlana A Novikova, Alexandr A Vishnyakov, Alexei Axinenko, Marina Rudakova, Moscow, Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics

The present invention relates to the art of agri- culture. The method of sterilizing anthers of plants comprises treatment of the plants with a sterilizing agent in combination with a diluent during the period of the fifth and/or sixth stage of organogenesis. According to the invention, as the sterilizing agent use is made of derivatives of phosphoric acids of the general formula: See Pa- tent f o r Chemical Structure wherein R is H, a C 1- C4 alkoxy, dimethylamine, wherein X is O, NH; B is H, a C1 -C4 alkyl, phenyl, D is H, CH3; A is a C1-C4 alkyl, phenyl furyl; R' is OH, ONH4, OAIk(C1-C4), phenyl; R2 is a CI-C4 alkyl,