US Patent Issued to British American Tobacco on Feb. 10 for "Method for decreasing alkaloid content of a tobacco plant" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,921, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to British American Tobacco Ltd. (London).

"Method for decreasing alkaloid content of a tobacco plant" was invented by Sara Ben Khaled (London) and Francisco Anastacio De Abreu E Lima (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of reducing the content of at least one tobacco specific nitrosamine (TSNA) precursor in tobacco, the method comprising modulating the activity or expression of at least one gene encoding a Walls are thin 1-related (WAT1-related) protein."

The patent was filed on May 14, 2020, under Application No. 17/595,270.

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