US Patent Issued to XUZHOU INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES on Dec. 16 for "Use of sweetpotato IbSAP15 gene in regulating leaf shape and flower shape of sweetpotato" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,630, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to XUZHOU INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (Jiangsu, China).

"Use of sweetpotato IbSAP15 gene in regulating leaf shape and flower shape of sweetpotato" was invented by Yaju Liu (Jiangsu, China), Hao Xie (Jiangsu, China), Qiang Li (Jiangsu, China), Yungang Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Hui Yan (Jiangsu, China), Meng Kou (Jiangsu, China), Wei Tang (Jiangsu, China), Xin Wang (Jiangsu, China), Qiangqiang Yang (Jiangsu, China), Xiaoxiao Wang (Jiangsu, China) and Ranqiu Li (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is the use of sweetpotato IbSAP15 gene in regulating leaf shape and flower shape...