US Patent Issued to BASF AGRO on Jan. 20 for "Plants having increased tolerance to herbicides" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,066, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to BASF AGRO B.V. (Arnhem, Netherlands).

"Plants having increased tolerance to herbicides" was invented by Raphael Aponte (Mannheim, Germany), Stefan Tresch (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Matthias Witschel (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Jens Lerchl (Limburgerhof, Germany), Jill Marie Paulik (Durham, N.C.) and Chad Brommer (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention refers to a seed or plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type or a mutated protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a benzoxazinone-derivat...