US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 25 for "Method for sensing plant hormone, and method for early detection of disease infection in plant using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,875, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for sensing plant hormone, and method for early detection of disease infection in plant using same" was invented by Katsumi Maeda (Tokyo) and Shigeyuki Iwasa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disease infection in a plant can be detected at an early stage by utilizing a boron-oxygen compound having a specific structure that selectively recognizes and forms a complex with methyl salicylate, which is a plant hormone released when a plant is infected by a pathogen, as a receptor for sensing, and by utilizing a fluorescence emission phenomenon and a change in electroch...