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Patent Registration 702760 Detoxification of plant toxins

Project start date: 25 February 2008
Project end date: 02 November 2016
Publication date: 02 November 2016
Project status: Completed
Livestock species: Sheep, Goat, Lamb, Grassfed cattle, Grainfed cattle

Summary

This project code held MLAs costs associated with patent protection for Australian patent 1995016195: Detoxification of plant toxins, jointly owned by MLA, Applied Biotechnology Pty Ltd and University of New England.
 
The patent covered a rumen microorganism engineered to express a gene product capable of rendering a component of, or associated with, forage, or a product of digestion of forage, which is toxic to a livestock host for the rumen microorganism, non-toxic to the livestock host.