US Patent Issued to The Curators of the University of Missouri on April 29 for "Methods of altering seed weight and seed oil content by manipulating alpha-carboxyl-transferase (a-CT) activity via carboxyl-transferase interaction (CTI) protein expression" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,649, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.).

"Methods of altering seed weight and seed oil content by manipulating alpha-carboxyl-transferase (a-CT) activity via carboxyl-transferase interaction (CTI) protein expression" was invented by Jay Thelen (Columbia, Mo.) and Yajin Ye (Columbia, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of altering fatty acid and/or triacylglycerol production in plants and/or algae is provided. The method includes altering activity levels of alpha-carboxyltransferase (Alpha-CT), a catalytic subunit of acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) by modulating an exp...