US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Sept. 23 for "Modulating sugar and amino acid content in a plant (SULTR3)" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,264, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Modulating sugar and amino acid content in a plant (SULTR3)" was invented by Lucien Bovet (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described herein a plant cell (i) a polynucleotide comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of a sequence having at least 60% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 1 (NtSULTR3;1A-S), SEQ ID NO: 3 (NtSULTR3;1A-T), SEQ ID NO: 5 (NtSULTR3;1B-S), SEQ ID NO: 7 (NtSULTR3;1B-T), SEQ ID NO: 15 (NtSULTR3;3-T), SEQ ID NO: 17 (NtSULTR3;4A-S), SEQ ID NO: 19 (NtSULTR3;4A-T) or SEQ ID NO: 23...