US Patent Issued to Beijing Grainsmeta Biotech on Jan. 27 for "Corn event 2A-7 and identification method therefor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,768, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Beijing Grainsmeta Biotech Co. LTD (Beijing).

"Corn event 2A-7 and identification method therefor" was invented by Jinsheng Lai (Beijing), Haiming Zhao (Beijing) and Weibin Song (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a transgenic corn event 2A-7, and corn plants or parts, seeds, cells, or progenies thereof containing nucleic acid molecules for diagnosing the corn event. The event shows resistance to lepidopteran insect infestation. Further provided are a method for detecting the presence of nucleic acid molecules unique to the corn event in a sample, and a probe and a primer for d...