US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on July 29 for "Improving agronomic characteristics in maize by modification of endogenous mads box transcription factors" (Iowa, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,702, issued on July 29, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Improving agronomic characteristics in maize by modification of endogenous mads box transcription factors" was invented by Shane E Abbitt (Ankeny, Iowa), Mary J Frank (Des Moines, Iowa), Shai Lawit (Urbandale, Iowa), Rosana Melo (St Charles, Mo.), Mary A Rupe (Altoona, Iowa), Bo Shen (Johnston, Iowa) and Jingrui Wu (Johnston, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Genome edited plants, plant cells, seeds and plant parts of maize are provided where expression levels and/or activities of MADS-box transcription factors are modulated to improve one...