US Patent Issued to Nanjing Forestry University on Aug. 5 for "GBWOX3A gene and application thereof in plant tissue culture" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,569, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Nanjing Forestry University (Nanjing, China).

"GBWOX3A gene and application thereof in plant tissue culture" was invented by Fangfang Fu (Nanjing, China), Liangjiao Xue (Nanjing, China), Fuliang Cao (Nanjing, China), Anqi Zhao (Nanjing, China), Wei Xu (Taizhou, China), Pingjun Xu (Qidong, China), Xiaoming Yang (Nanjing, China) and Meiling Ming (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Ginkgo biloba wuschel-related homeobox 3A (GbWOX3A) gene and an application thereof in plant tissue culture are provided. The GbWOX3A gene is derived from a Ginkgo biloba embryo, the gene sequence of the GbWO...