US Patent Issued to Pairwise Plants Services on July 22 for "Modification of brassinosteroid receptor genes to improve yield traits" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,911, issued on July 22, was assigned to Pairwise Plants Services Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Modification of brassinosteroid receptor genes to improve yield traits" was invented by Nicholas Bate (Raleigh, N.C.), Lolita George Mathew (Cary, N.C.) and Devin O'Connor (Hillsborough, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to compositions and methods for modifying Brassinosteroid Insensitive-1 (BRI1) genes in plants by introducing at least one mutation in a region of the BRI1 gene encoding the kinase domain, optionally to improve yield traits. The invention further relates to a mutated BRI1 gene, a modified BRI1 polypeptide, ...