US Patent Issued to Syngenta Crop Protection on July 29 for "Haploid induction compositions and methods for use therefor" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,701, issued on July 29, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Haploid induction compositions and methods for use therefor" was invented by Timothy Kelliher (RTP, N.C.), Satya Chintamanani (Slater, Iowa), Brent Delzer (Janesville, Wis.), Michael L Nuccio (Durham, N.C.), Robert Arthur Dietrich (RTP, N.C.), Suresh Babu Kadaru (Hydrabad, India), Todd Lee Warner (Stanton, Minn.) and William Paul Bullock (Slater, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided here are methods of using a mutated patatin-like phospholipase IIAlpha ("pPLAIIAlpha," renamed here MATRILINEAL) to induce haploid induction in plants, clon...