US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH on May 27 for "Method for extending shelf-life of agricultural produce" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,380, issued on May 27, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH (New Dehli, India).

"Method for extending shelf-life of agricultural produce" was invented by Jagadis Gupta Kapuganti (New Delhi), Mallesham Bulle (New Delhi) and Aprajita Kumari (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for delaying ripening in an agricultural produce is provided. The method includes the steps of (a) contacting a plant material with a nitrite source; (b) providing at least one hypoxia-inducing source to the plant material to enable the production of nitric oxide in presence of the nitrite source; and (c) exposing an agricultu...