US Patent Issued to BASF on May 13 for "Regulatory nucleic acid molecules for enhancing gene expression in plants" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,440, issued on May 13, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Regulatory nucleic acid molecules for enhancing gene expression in plants" was invented by Frank Meulewaeter (Ghent, Belgium), Shirong Zhang (Morrisville, N.C.) and Christophe Liseron-Monfils (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing promoters and the production of plants with enhanced expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to said promoters and/or intro...