US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on March 4 for "Plant body of genus Nicotiana with low alkaloid content and production method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,090, issued on March 4, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Plant body of genus Nicotiana with low alkaloid content and production method thereof" was invented by Takanori Takeuchi (Tokyo), Masao Arai (Tokyo), Hisashi Udagawa (Tokyo), Hiroshi Magome (Tokyo), Ryo Nishiguchi (Tokyo) and Yoshimitsu Takakura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present invention provides a tobacco plant having a low alkaloid content. In the tobacco plant, a function of a gene encoding aspartate oxidase AO2 is suppressed."

The patent was filed on Oct. 13, 2022, under Application No. 17/965,450.

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