US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR BAMBOO AND RATTAN on March 25 for "Peony POWOX11 gene and applications of coded protein thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,570, issued on March 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR BAMBOO AND RATTAN (Beijing).

"Peony POWOX11 gene and applications of coded protein thereof" was invented by Wenbo Zhang (Beijing), Zehui Jiang (Beijing), Tao Hu (Beijing), Yanting Chang (Beijing), Yanjun Ma (Beijing) and Yayun Deng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peony PoWOX11 gene and an application of a coded protein thereof are provided in the present disclosure, belonging to the field of biotechnology. The peony PoWOX11 gene is introduced into Arabidopsis thaliana to obtain a transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plant stably expressing peony PoWOX11 gene, wit...