US Patent Issued to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE on Dec. 23 for "Compositions and methods for enhancing resistance to northern leaf blight in maize" (Iowa, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,708, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE LLC (Indianapolis).

"Compositions and methods for enhancing resistance to northern leaf blight in maize" was invented by Bailin Li (Johnston, Iowa) and William Andrew Wilson (Noblesville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are a maize plant comprising a heterologous DNA sequence that comprises an NLB18 sequence associated with resistance to northern leaf blight and a method of generating a maize plant comprising resistance to northern leaf blight."

The patent was filed on Aug. 11, 2022, under Application No. 17/819,296.

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