ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,010, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).
"Pod shatter tolerance in Brassica plants" was invented by Sarah Atwood (Ankeny, Iowa), Norbert Brugiere (Johnston, Iowa), Igor Falak (Guelph, Canada), Kevin A Fengler (Clive, Iowa), Siva S. Ammiraju Jetty (Johnston, Iowa) and Jonathan Myrvold (Waukee, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods and compositions for identifying Brassica plants that have a native deletion of the INDEHISCENT gene (BnIND-A) located on chromosome A of B. napus. Also provided are methods of improving one or more agronomic characteristics s...