US Patent Issued to HENAN UNIVERSITY, SANYA INSTITUTE OF HENAN UNIVERSITY on Nov. 4 for "Method for promoting expression of foreign gene in soybean, arabidopsis or tobacco using gene promoter pEIF1 or pEIF1-I" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,220, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HENAN UNIVERSITY (Zhengzhou, China) and SANYA INSTITUTE OF HENAN UNIVERSITY (Sanya, China).

"Method for promoting expression of foreign gene in soybean, arabidopsis or tobacco using gene promoter pEIF1 or pEIF1-I" was invented by Xuelu Wang (Kaifeng, China), Haijiao Wang (Kaifeng, China) and Yaqi Peng (Kaifeng, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for promoting expression of a foreign gene in a plant includes: constructing a recombinant vector including a full-length soybean gene promoter pEIF1 or an intron-including soybean gene promoter pEIF1-I, and introducing the recombinant vector i...