US Patent Issued to Zhejiang Normal University on Nov. 11 for "Rice white leaf and panicle gene WLP3 and application thereof in rice stress resistance and yield increase" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,059, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Zhejiang Normal University (Jinhua, China).

"Rice white leaf and panicle gene WLP3 and application thereof in rice stress resistance and yield increase" was invented by Yuchun Rao (Jinhua, China), Tao Lu (Jinhua, China), Jiahui Huang (Jinhua, China), Wenjing Yin (Jinhua, China), Qianqian Zhong (Jinhua, China), Yuqi Yang (Jinhua, China), Tianqi Lu (Jinhua, China), Jinglei Sun (Jinhua, China) and Qiwei Jia (Jinhua, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rice white leaf and panicle gene wlp3 is provided. The cDNA sequence of the white leaf and panicle gene wlp3 is shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, and the en...