US Patent Issued to Syngenta Crop Protection on July 29 for "Genetic regions and genes associated with increased yield in plants" (North Carolina, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,542, issued on July 29, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Genetic regions and genes associated with increased yield in plants" was invented by Michael Mahlon Magwire (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Robert John Bensen (Osage, Minn.), Allison Weber (Willdwood, Mo.), Satya Chintamanani (Slater, Iowa), Elhan Sultan Ersoz (Champaign, Ill.) and Yuejin Sun (Research Triangle Park, 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 plant or germplasm having root increased drought tolerance and/or increased yield under non...