US Patent Issued to Beijing Dabeinong Biotechnology on Aug. 12 for "Herbicide tolerance protein, encoding gene thereof and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,058, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Beijing Dabeinong Biotechnology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Herbicide tolerance protein, encoding gene thereof and use thereof" was invented by Jian He (Nanjing, China), Bin Liu (Nanjing, China), Qian Peng (Nanjing, China), Qing Tao (Beijing), Xiang Xiao (Beijing) and Xiaoming Bao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an herbicide tolerance protein, an encoding gene thereof and use thereof, the herbicide tolerance protein comprising: a protein (a) having an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, and having an alanine substitution at least at position 176 and/o...