US Patent Issued to OIL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES on May 20 for "Method for identifying and evaluating toxigenic capability of aflatoxigenic strain" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,243, issued on May 20, was assigned to OIL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (Hubei, China).

"Method for identifying and evaluating toxigenic capability of aflatoxigenic strain" was invented by Qi Zhang (Hubei, China), Peiwu Li (Hubei, China), Yizhen Bai (Hubei, China), Hui Li (Hubei, China), Jun Jiang (Hubei, China) and Wen Zhang (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying and evaluating toxigenic capability of an aflatoxigenic strain. A ratio of the aflatoxin yield to Nor-1 gene transcriptional quantity is determined to have high relative stability. An Aspergillus flavus st...