US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR BAMBOO AND RATTAN on March 18 for "Peony PoWOX4 gene and applications of coded protein thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,695, issued on March 18, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR BAMBOO AND RATTAN (Beijing).

"Peony PoWOX4 gene and applications of coded protein thereof" was invented by Wenbo Zhang (Beijing), Yanting Chang (Beijing), Yanjun Ma (Beijing), Tao Hu (Beijing), Zehui Jiang (Beijing), Yayun Deng (Beijing), Yufei Meng (Beijing), Xue Zhang (Beijing) and Mengsi Xia (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a peony PoWOX4 gene and applications of a coded protein thereof, belonging to the field of biotechnology. According to the present disclosure, Arabidopsis thaliana is taken as a model plant, and the peony PoWOX4 gene is tran...