US Patent Issued to North Carolina State University on May 20 for "Compositions and methods for conferring resistance to geminivirus" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,184, issued on May 20, was assigned to North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Compositions and methods for conferring resistance to geminivirus" was invented by Jose Trinidad Ascencio-Ibanez (Raleigh, N.C.), Linda K. Hanley-Bowdoin (Raleigh, N.C.) and Wei Shen (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are expression cassettes that can be used to express proteins in plants. In some embodiments, the expression cassettes include polynucleotides that encode polypeptides that are at least 96% identical to SEQ ID NO: 2 operably linked to a promoter and a transcription terminator and optionally a tag sequence. Al...