US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on April 29 for "Methods and compositions related to improved nitrogen utilization efficiency in tobacco" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,977, issued on April 29, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Methods and compositions related to improved nitrogen utilization efficiency in tobacco" was invented by Jesse Frederick (Richmond, Va.), Chengalrayan Kudithipudi (Midlothian, Va.) and Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides metabolic signatures and genetic markers for tracking enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency phenotypes in tobacco plants and for introgressing enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency phenotypes into tobacco plants. The disclosure also provides tobacco plants comprising enhanc...