US Patent Issued to Institute of Food Crops, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences on Oct. 7 for "Application of ZM00001D012005 gene in regulating starch content of maize kernels" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,214, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Institute of Food Crops, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Kunming, China).

"Application of ZM00001D012005 gene in regulating starch content of maize kernels" was invented by Xingming Fan (Yunnan, China), Xiaoping Yang (Yunnan, China), Fuyan Jiang (Yunnan, China), Xingfu Yin (Yunnan, China) and Yaqi Bi (Yunnan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to the field of molecular marker-assisted breeding of maize, and specifically an application of a Zm00001d012005 gene in regulating starch content of maize kernels. Specifically, an application of a gene related to starch c...