US Patent Issued to KT&G on Oct. 28 for "Transgenic plant with reduced heavy metals and methods for preparation thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,698, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Transgenic plant with reduced heavy metals and methods for preparation thereof" was invented by Hyo Seok Seo (Sejong, South Korea), Young Gi Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong Heon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwang Chul Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Woong Hyun Na (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyoung Hwan Oh (Cheongju-si, South Korea) and Eun Young Jeon (Sejong, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: a plant cell, in which expression or activity of a phytochelatin synthase (PCS) gene or a protein encoded by the PCS gene is reduced as compared with a p...