US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on June 10 for "Compositions and methods for transgenic crops resistant to thaxtomins" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,862, issued on June 10, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Compositions and methods for transgenic crops resistant to thaxtomins" was invented by Yousong Ding (Gainesville, Fla.) and Guangde Jiang (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions comprising nitroreductase enzymes; plants, plant calluses, plant seeds, and vegetables incorporating genes expressing nitroreductase enzymes; methods for stably and operably incorporating genes expressing nitroreductase enzymes into plants and plant tissues; wherein the nitroreductase enzymes are...