US Patent Issued to Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin Genovo Biotechnology on Sept. 16 for "Method for improving plant genetic transformation and gene editing efficiency" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,013, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing) and Tianjin Genovo Biotechnology Co. Ltd. (Tianjin, China).

"Method for improving plant genetic transformation and gene editing efficiency" was invented by Caixia Gao (Beijing), Yanpeng Wang (Beijing), Fengti Qiu (Beijing), Yidong Ran (Tianjin, China), Hu Xu (Tianjin, China) and Kang Zhang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for improving plant genetic transformation and gene editing efficiency. Specifically, the method improves the regeneration efficiency ...