US Patent Issued to BASF Plant Science on July 8 for "Regulatory nucleic acid molecules for enhancing constitutive gene expression in plants" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,807, issued on July 8, was assigned to BASF Plant Science Co. GmbH (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Regulatory nucleic acid molecules for enhancing constitutive gene expression in plants" was invented by Josef Martin Kuhn (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Linda Patricia Loyall (Limburgerhof, Germany), Malte Siebert (Heidelberg, Germany) and Elke Duwenig (Limburgerhof, Germany).

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 constitutive promoters and the production of plants with enhanced constitutive expression of nucleic acids wherein nucl...