US Patent Issued to Syngenta Crop Protection on Dec. 30 for "Genetic loci associated with disease resistance in soybeans" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,736, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Genetic loci associated with disease resistance in soybeans" was invented by Robert Arthur Dietrich (Durham, N.C.), Thomas Joseph Curley (Durham, N.C.), Becky Welsh Breitinger (Durham, N.C.), John Luther Dawson (Durham, N.C.), John Daniel Hipskind (Durham, N.C.) and Qingli Liu (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying, selecting and/or producing a Disease resistant soybean plant or germplasm using markers, genes and chromosomal intervals derived from Glycine tomentella...