US Patent Issued to Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, CAAS on Aug. 12 for "Method and formulation for inducing abortion or deformation of plant seeds" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,059, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, CAAS (Zhengzhou, China).

"Method and formulation for inducing abortion or deformation of plant seeds" was invented by Ying Zhang (Henan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of genetic breeding, in particular, to methods and formulations for inducing abortion or deformation of plant seeds by a VvDUF642 gene. The result of the present disclosure shows that the VvDUF642 gene is continuously expressed at a high level in seedless varieties, but there is no significant change in expression in nucleated varieties. After t...