US Patent Issued to Advanta Holdings on Nov. 4 for "Sorghum plants having a mutant polynucleotide encoding the large subunit of mutated acetohydroxyacid synthase protein and increased resistance to herbicides" (Argentinean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,954, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Advanta Holdings BV (Breda, Netherlands).

"Sorghum plants having a mutant polynucleotide encoding the large subunit of mutated acetohydroxyacid synthase protein and increased resistance to herbicides" was invented by Vicente Trucillo Uriarte (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Andres Daniel Zambelli (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Marcos Kaspar (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Pedro Alejandro Pardo (Venado Tuerto, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Sorghum seed comprising in its genome at least one polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having an alanine to tyrosine substitution at position 93 of the Sorgh...