US Patent Issued to Pairwise Plants Services on Jan. 20 for "Methods and compositions for enhancing root system development" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,063, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Pairwise Plants Services Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Methods and compositions for enhancing root system development" was invented by Julius Mojica (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to compositions and methods for modifying root architecture in a plant through modification of an endogenous Ser-Thr protein kinase gene, such as endogenous PHOSPHOROUS STARVATION TOLERANCE 1 (PSTOL1) nucleic acids. The invention further relates to plants produced using the methods and compositions of the invention."

The patent was filed on June 30, 2022, under Application No. 17/853,997....