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.