US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Oct. 14 for "Method for producing plants with minimized biomass byproduct and associated plants thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,013, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Method for producing plants with minimized biomass byproduct and associated plants thereof" was invented by Martha Lucia Orozco-Cardenas (Oakland, Calif.) and Robert Jinkerson (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a plant having an increased proportion of edible biomass resulting from genetic modification of gene that encodes a poly(adenosine 5'-diphosphate (ADP)-Ribose) Polymerase (PARP) enzyme."

The patent was filed on March 5, 2021, under Application No. 17/905,733.

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