US Patent Issued to BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY on Jan. 27 for "Overcoming self-incompatibility in diploid plants for breeding and production of hybrids through modulation of HT" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,737, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Overcoming self-incompatibility in diploid plants for breeding and production of hybrids through modulation of HT" was invented by David S. Douches (Okemos, Mich.), Felix E. Enciso-Rodriguez (East Lansing, Mich.), Satya Swathi Nadakuduti (Haslett, Mich.) and Norma C. Manrique-Carpintero (East Lansing, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods for controlling hybridization in plants and producing hybrid plants. The present invention also relates to nucleic acids encoding amino acid sequence...