US Patent Issued to TOOLGEN on April 29 for "Oleic acid-enriched plant body having genetically modified FAD2 and production method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,635, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOOLGEN Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Oleic acid-enriched plant body having genetically modified FAD2 and production method thereof" was invented by Seok Joong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Ok Jae Koo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Min Hee Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Ye Seul Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an artificially manipulated unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis-associated factor and use thereof to increase the content of a specific unsaturated fatty acid of a plant body. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system c...