US Patent Issued to QINGDAO INSTITUTE OF BIOENERGY AND BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Inner Mongolia Pratacultural Technology Innovation Center on Feb. 18 for "Use of MTNAC33 gene and an encoded protein thereby in improving the biomass and drought tolerance of Medicago sativa L." (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,752, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to QINGDAO INSTITUTE OF BIOENERGY AND BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Qingdao, China) and Inner Mongolia Pratacultural Technology Innovation Center Co. Ltd (Hohhot, China).

"Use of MTNAC33 gene and an encoded protein thereby in improving the biomass and drought tolerance of Medicago sativa L." was invented by Chunxiang Fu (Qingdao, China), Ruijuan Yang (Qingdao, China), Wenwen Liu (Qingdao, China), Zhaoming Wang (Qingdao, China), Feng Yuan (Qingdao, China), Ying Sun (Qingdao, China), Shiqie Bai (Qingdao, China), Chuanen Zhou (Qingdao, China), Jiajun Yan (Qingdao, China), Yaling Liu (Qingdao, China), Xiaowei Zhang (Qingdao, C...