US Patent Issued to CERES on Feb. 10 for "Drought and heat tolerance in plants" (California, Indiana, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,925, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CERES INC. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Drought and heat tolerance in plants" was invented by Cory Christensen (Zionsville, Ind.), Wuyi Wang (Newbury Park, Calif.) and Dennis Yang (Ballwin, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having ...