US Patent Issued to TWO BLADES FOUNDATION on Jan. 20 for "Potyvirus resistance genes and methods of use" (Polish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,068, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TWO BLADES FOUNDATION (Evanston, Ill.).

"Potyvirus resistance genes and methods of use" was invented by Kamil Witek (Norwich, Great Britain), Marta Grech-Baran (Warsaw, Poland), Jacek Hennig (Warsaw, Poland), Jonathan D.G. Jones (Norwich, Great Britain), Waldemar Marczewski (Mlochow, Poland) and Katarzyna Szajko (Grojec, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods and for enhancing the resistance of plants to plant diseases caused by potyviruses are provided. The compositions comprise nucleic acid molecules encoding resistance (R) gene products and variants thereof and plants...