ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,399, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Keygene N.V. (Wageningen, Netherlands).
"Shoot regeneration by overexpression of CHK genes" was invented by Michiel Theodoor Jan De Both (Wageningen, Netherlands), Rik Hubertus Martinus Op Den Camp (Wageningen, Netherlands), Bjorn Alexander Kloosterman (Wageningen, Netherlands) and Bernarda Gerharda Johanna Fierens-Onstenk (Wageningen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Genetic modification of plants is hampered by the limited capacity of plant cells to regenerate. The current invention solves this problem by introducing or increasing the expression of a histidine kinase in a plant cell...