US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on Nov. 4 for "Methods and compositions for herbicide tolerance in plants" (California, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,222, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and compositions for herbicide tolerance in plants" was invented by Guillermo A. Asmar-Rovira (San Diego), Stephen M. Duff (St. Louis), Shirley X. Guo (Chesterfield, Mo.), Jingdong Liu (Chesterfield, Mo.), R. Douglas Sammons (Wentzville, Mo.) and Lei Shi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to novel methods and compositions for conferring tolerance to glyphosate to plants. The invention also provides glyphosate-tolerant plants, seeds, tissue, cells, and plant parts comprising modified EPSP synthases and recombinant DNA molec...