US Patent Issued to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS, SIBERIAN BRANCH OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on June 3 for "Synthetic ethylene-responsive binding element and uses thereof" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,919, issued on June 3, was assigned to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (Raleigh, N.C.) and INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS, SIBERIAN BRANCH OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Novosibirsk, Russia).

"Synthetic ethylene-responsive binding element and uses thereof" was invented by Anna N. Stepanova (Cary, N.C.), Jose M. Alonso (Cary, N.C.), Josefina Patricia Fernandez-Moreno (Raleigh, N.C.), Elena Zemlyanskaya (Novosibirsk, Russia) and Victor Levitsky (Novosibirsk, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a recombinant nucleic acid construct comprising a sequence of Formula I (SEQ ID NO:48): X-N1-N2-N3-N4-N5-N6-N7-N8-N9-N10-N11-Y...