US Patent Issued to Sanya Institute of Henan University, Henan University on Aug. 5 for "Tomato glutaredoxin SIGRXC9 gene and its application" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,564, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sanya Institute of Henan University (Sanya, China) and Henan University (Kaifeng, China).

"Tomato glutaredoxin SIGRXC9 gene and its application" was invented by Yingfang Zhu (Kaifeng, China), Zhixin Jiao (Kaifeng, China) and Rui Xu (Kaifeng, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a tomato glutaredoxin SIGRXC9 gene and its application. The present invention first identifies the tomato glutaredoxin SIGRXC9 gene, knock out of SIGRXC9 in tomato MT (micro-Tom) by Agrobacterium-mediated method for function identification and obtains a result that SIGRXC9 gene deletion resu...