US Patent Issued to VALENT BIOSCIENCES on Sept. 2 for "Methods of improving stress tolerance, growth and yield in plants" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,623, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to VALENT BIOSCIENCES LLC (Libertyville, Ill.).

"Methods of improving stress tolerance, growth and yield in plants" was invented by Srirama Krishna Reddy (Lbertyvilles, Ill.) and Brian Sopcak (Streamwood, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods of improving growth and yield in plants by applying an effective amount of a mixture of(S)-abscisic acid and cytokinin to the plant. The present invention relates to methods of improving stress tolerance in plants by applying an effective amount of a mixture of(S)-abscisic acid and cytokinin to the plant."

The patent wa...