US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES on May 6 for "Method for improving cadmium tolerance in rice and reducing cadmium content in rice grains" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,027, issued on May 6, was assigned to ZHEJIANG ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (Hangzhou, China).

"Method for improving cadmium tolerance in rice and reducing cadmium content in rice grains" was invented by Fucheng Lin (Hangzhou, China), Zhenzhu Su (Hangzhou, China), Lin Li (Hangzhou, China), Yan Liang (Hangzhou, China) and Kunlun Shen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a method for improving cadmium tolerance in rice and reducing cadmium content in rice grains, and belongs to the technical field of microbial applications. In the present invention, an endophytic fungi Falciphora oryzae FO...