Table 2.

Indian patents claiming endophyte’s benefit in plants (2000–2018).

No	Organism	Patent claim	Patent #	Patent author
A. Endophytic fungi
1	Piriformospora indica and Azotobacter chroococcum	Plant growth promotion	2017/DEL/2013	Arora et al., 2015
B. Endophytic fungi + Bacteria
2	Fungi and bacteria	Patent awaiting improvement of germination rate, emergence rate, shoot biomass, root biomass, seedling root length, seedling shoot length, and yield.	201717043115	Karen et al., 2017
3	Fungi and bacteria	Patent awaiting improvement of agronomically important traits.	201717043114	Karen et al., 2018