US Patent Issued to CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY on Nov. 4 for "Parthenogenetic haploid induction gene DMP and application thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,218, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Parthenogenetic haploid induction gene DMP and application thereof" was invented by Shaojiang Chen (Beijing), Yu Zhong (Beijing), Chenxu Liu (Beijing), Xiaolong Qi (Beijing), Mengran Li (Beijing), Baojian Chen (Beijing), Yanyan Jiao (Beijing) and Zongkai Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a parthenogenetic haploid induction gene DMP and an application thereof. The parthenogenetic haploid induction genes AtDMP8 and AtDMP9 are cloned from Arabidopsis thaliana. Experiments have shown that mutations of AtDMP8 and AtDMP9 can produce parth...