US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on July 29 for "Methods of identifying, selecting, and producing anthracnose stalk rot resistant crops" (Iowa, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,706, issued on July 29, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Methods of identifying, selecting, and producing anthracnose stalk rot resistant crops" was invented by Alyssa Marie Deleon (Des Moines, Iowa), Kevin A Fengler (Clive, Iowa), Shawn Thatcher (Urbandale, Iowa), Petra J Wolters (Kennett Square, Pa.) and Mark Timothy Jung (Urbandale, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The field is related to plant breeding and methods of identifying and selecting plants with resistance to anthracnose stalk rot. Provided are methods to identify novel genes that encode proteins providing plant resistance to anthr...