ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,559, issued on March 25, was assigned to PLANTARC BIO LTD. (Raanana, Israel).
"Methods for improving traits in plants" was invented by Dror Shalitin (Raanana, Israel), Noam Grimberg (Raanana, Israel) and Arava Shatil Cohen (Raanana, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a method for screening for and identifying a desirable plant improving trait, said method comprises steps of: (a) obtaining genetic material from a sampling of a predefined source and (b) constructing an expression library from said genetic material. The aforementioned method further comprises steps of: (c) producing plants transformed...