ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,329, issued on June 17, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).
"Genome editing in plants" was invented by Yurong Chen (Chesterfield, Mo.), Annie Saltarikos (O'Fallon, Mo.), Jianping Xu (Chesterfield, Mo.) and Xudong Ye (Chesterfield, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compositions for genome editing and site-directed integration in plants comprising microprojectile particles coated, treated of applied with a recombinant DNA construct comprising a sequence encoding one or more genome editing reagents for delivery to a mature embryo explant from dry seeds. Further provided are methods for genome editing and s...