US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Dec. 30 for "Methods and composition for transferring T-DNA into a plant" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,696, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Methods and composition for transferring T-DNA into a plant" was invented by Stanton B Gelvin (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Lan-Ying Lee (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a series of mutant Agrobacterium strains generated by random mutagenesis of a wide-type or Omega mutant VirD2 gene or VirD2 protein. The mutant Agrobacterium strains of the present disclosure transiently express T-DNA-encoded transgenes in a target plant but do not stably integrate these genes into the plant genome."

The patent...