US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on July 15 for "Methods and compositions for short stature plants through manipulation of gibberellin metabolism to increase harvestable yield" (Missouri, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,216, issued on July 15, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and compositions for short stature plants through manipulation of gibberellin metabolism to increase harvestable yield" was invented by Edwards M. Allen (O'Fallon, Mo.), Jayanand Boddu (St. Louis), Charles R. Dietrich (Chesterfield, Mo.), Alexander Goldshmidt (Davis, Calif.), Miya Howell (Ballwin, Mo.), Kevin R. Kosola (Wildwood, Mo.), Silvalinganna Manjunath (Chesterfield, Mo.), Anil Neelam (St. Louis), Linda Rymarquis (High Ridge, Mo.), Thomas L. Slewinski (Chesterfield, Mo.), Tyamagondlu V. Venkatesh (St. Louis) and Huai Wang (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent...