US Patent Issued to Centure Applications on Feb. 25 for "System and method for real-time crop management" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,438, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Centure Applications LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"System and method for real-time crop management" was invented by Itzhak Khait (Kibbutz Ein Zivan, Israel) and Moshe Bar (Rishon Le-Zion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a method for selective crop management in real time. The method comprises steps of: (a) producing a biosensor plant, said biosensor plant comprises a visual biomarker, said biomarker is encoded by at least one modified genetic locus comprising (i) preselected reporter gene allele having a phenotype detectable by a sensor, and (ii) a regulatory re...