US Patent Issued to Syngenta Crop Protection on Oct. 7 for "Methods for transformation of dicot plant cells" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,340, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Methods for transformation of dicot plant cells" was invented by Jianping Xu (Beijing), Chao Li (Beijing) and Qin Wen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods of transformation of dicots, such as tomato and watermelon. In some aspects, the methods comprise use of dicot explants obtained by dividing seeds and soaking the dicot explants in various media. In some aspects, transformed cells of a dicot plant are provided as well as dicot plants comprising transformed cells."

The patent was filed on Aug. 28, 2020, und...