US Patent Issued to Suntory Holdings on Aug. 12 for "Buckwheat-derived C-glycosyltransferase gene and utilization thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,019, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Suntory Holdings Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Buckwheat-derived C-glycosyltransferase gene and utilization thereof" was invented by Noriko Nakamura (Kyoto, Japan), Naoko Okitsu (Osaka, Japan) and Yukihisa Katsumoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transgenic plants with blue flower color, or their inbred or outbred progeny, or their propagules, partial plant bodies, tissues or cells, are provided. A buckwheat-derived C-glucosyltransferase (CGT) gene or its homolog is transferred into a host plant to cause delphinidin-type anthocyanins and flavone mono-C-glycosides to be copresent in the plant cel...