US Patent Issued to BASF PLANT SCIENCE on Feb. 4 for "Method of increasing resistance against soybean rust in transgenic plants by increasing the scoparone" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,332, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Method of increasing resistance against soybean rust in transgenic plants by increasing the scoparone" was invented by Caspar Langenbach (Aachen, Germany), Uwe Conrath (Aachen, Germany), Patrick Schwinges (Aachen, Germany), Sebastian Beyer (Aachen, Germany), Holger Schultheiss (Einbeck, Germany) and David Spencer (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to the field of imparting or increasing resistance against fungal pathogens, in particular soy-beanrust, in plants, plant parts, and/or plant cells. Th...