US Patent Issued to INSTITUTE OF CROP SCIENCES, CHINESE ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES on Dec. 30 for "Plant fertility-associated protein and its application thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,700, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF CROP SCIENCES, CHINESE ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Plant fertility-associated protein and its application thereof" was invented by Bingjun Jiang (Beijing), Shi Sun (Beijing), Li Chen (Beijing), Tianfu Han (Beijing), Yanlei Yue (Beijing), Wensheng Hou (Beijing), Luping Liu (Beijing), Shan Yuan (Beijing) and Tingting Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a plant fertility-associated protein and its application. The present invention claims a method for obtaining male-sterile plants by reducing or inhibiting the activity and/or con...