US Patent Issued to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION on July 8 for "Resistance genes associated with disease resistance in soybeans" (North Carolina, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,810, issued on July 8, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Resistance genes associated with disease resistance in soybeans" was invented by Qingli Liu (Durham, N.C.), Thomas Joseph Curley Jr. (Durham, N.C.), Becky Welsh Breitinger (Durham, N.C.), John Daniel Hipskind (Durham, N.C.), John Luther Dawson (Durham, N.C.), Xiaoping Tan (Durham, N.C.), Andrew David Farmer (Santa Fe, N.M.) and Euihwan Chung (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 genes de...