US Patent Issued to Colorado State University Research Foundation, University of Adelaide on March 18 for "Herbicide tolerant plants and production and detection of same" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,697, issued on March 18, was assigned to Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colo.) and University of Adelaide (Adelaide, Australia).

"Herbicide tolerant plants and production and detection of same" was invented by Todd Gaines (Fort Collins, Colo.), Marcelo Rodrigues Alves De Figueiredo (Fort Collins, Colo.), Anita Kupper (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Christopher Preston (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention refers to a plant or plant part comprising a polynucleotide encoding an herbicide tolerant IAA2 polypeptide having a deleted or disrupted degron tail region, the expressio...