US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture on Jan. 27 for "Plants with increased photorespiration efficiency" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,736, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington).

"Plants with increased photorespiration efficiency" was invented by Donald R. Ort (Champaign, Ill.), Paul F. South (Champaign, Ill.) and Berkley Walker (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are plants with altered photorespiratory characteristics. Disruption of transport proteins involved in shuttling glycolate and/or glycerate results in reductions in photosynthetic rates, reduced plant growth and alterations in gene expression and photosynthetic metabolite profiles. Such d...