US Patent Issued to Syngenta Crop Protection on May 13 for "Compositions and methods for driving T1 event diversity" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,439, issued on May 13, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Compositions and methods for driving T1 event diversity" was invented by Timothy Kelliher (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Jiang Li (Beijing), Julie Leonard Green (Woodland, Calif.), Zhongying Chen (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Wan Shi (Beijing) and Guozhu Tang (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for producing a plurality of unique edits in a plant's T1 seed. In one example, a method comprises transforming at least one expression cassette into a plant cell or a plant tissue. The at least one expressi...