US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on June 3 for "Methods and compositions for short stature plants through manipulation of gibberellin metabolism to increase harvestable yield" (Missouri, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,922, issued on June 3, 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.), Sivalinganna 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 & ...