MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517095124 A) filed by Somycel, Langeais, France, on Oct. 3, for 'new sporeless pleurotus strain.'

Inventor(s) include Amini, Anica; Pege, Segolene; and Wach, Mark.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to the development of a new sporeless Pleurotus strain designated FiBABH-334, a representative culture thereof having been deposited at the Collection Nationale de Cultures de Microorganismes (CNCM), Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 PARIS Cedex 15, on March 21, 2023, under the CNCM Accession Number I-5939. This sporeless Pleurotus strain displays an excellent yield weight of the harvested crop and a very good shelf-life of the mushroom products. The present invention also relates to cultures obtained, descended, or otherwise derived from this strain. More particularly, the present invention relates to cultures comprising at least one haploid set of chromosomes of said strain, especially to monokaryons thereof or to F1 hybrids produced by mating this monokaryon with a second Pleurotus line. The invention further relates to methods of use of the cultures described hereinabove."

The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 28, 2024, under International application No.PCT/EP2024/058615.

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