US Patent Issued to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES on April 29 for "Compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants and products having reduced or eliminated suckers" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,637, issued on April 29, was assigned to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants and products having reduced or eliminated suckers" was invented by Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Va.), Jesse Frederick (Richmond, Va.), Chengalrayan Kudithipudi (Midlothian, Va.), Yanxin Shen (Glen Allen, Va.), James Strickland (Richmond, Va.) and Jaemo Yang (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides the identification of genes involved in sucker growth in tobacco. Also provided are promoters that are preferentially active in tobacco axillary buds. Also provided are mo...