US Patent Issued to SHANDONG SHUNFENG BIOTECHNOLOGY on Aug. 26 for "Herbicide-resistant acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) mutant and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,400, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SHANDONG SHUNFENG BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Jinan, China).

"Herbicide-resistant acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) mutant and use thereof" was invented by Jinshan Zhang (Jinan, China) and Limei Wang (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mutant acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) protein, a nucleic acid encoding the mutant ACC protein, and use thereof are provided. Specifically, compared with a parent ACC protein, the mutant ACC protein has mutations at amino acids corresponding to amino acid 1,879 and/or amino acid 2,186 of SEQ ID NO: 1. An ACC-mutated plant shows high herbicide resistance, and thus ...