US Patent Issued to AGRICULTURAL GENOMICS INSTITUTE AT SHENZHEN, CHINESE ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES on Aug. 12 for "Materials and methods for producing hybrid diploid potato" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,919, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AGRICULTURAL GENOMICS INSTITUTE AT SHENZHEN, CHINESE ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (Shenzhen, China).

"Materials and methods for producing hybrid diploid potato" was invented by Sanwen Huang (Shenzhen, China), Chunzhi Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Yanhui Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Pei Wang (Shenzhen, China), Zhongmin Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Die Tang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are materials and methods for producing diploid, fertile, uniform, and vigorous hybrid potato. Also provided are methods of using advanced breeding methods, such as genome design, to gener...