ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,296, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER (St. Louis).
"Modified antimicrobial peptides" was invented by Dilip M. Shah (St. Louis) and Meenakshi Tetorya (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antimicrobial defensin peptide variants comprising modified C-terminal fragments of a defensin and nucleic acids encoding the same are disclosed. Compositions comprising the defensin variant peptides and methods of their use to control microbial infections of plants and vertebrate subjects as well as contamination of feedstuffs and foodstuffs are also disclosed."
The patent was filed on June 16, 2022, under A...