US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on Nov. 11 for "Plant pathogen effector and disease resistance gene identification, compositions, and methods of use" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,061, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Plant pathogen effector and disease resistance gene identification, compositions, and methods of use" was invented by James Cahill (Des Moines, Iowa), April L Leonard (Des Moines, Iowa), Bailin Li (Johnston, Iowa), Yurong Li (Johnston, Iowa) and Shawn Thatcher (Urbandale, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The compositions and methods are related to plant breeding and methods of identifying and selecting disease resistance genes and plant pathogen effector genes. Provided are methods to identify novel genes that encode plant pathogen effect...