Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Enhanced Crispr/Cas9 Editing In Plants Via Synthetic 86-Nt Grna Scaffold For Multigene Targeting' Filed by Icar-Indian Agricultural Research Institute

MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611000034 A) filed by Icar-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, on Jan. 1, for 'enhanced crispr/cas9 editing in plants via synthetic 86-nt grna scaffold for multigene targeting.'

Inventor(s) include Tushar Kanti Dutta; Soham Ray; Joshitha Vijayan; Voodikala Sai Akhil; Katakam Rupinikrishna; and Viswanathan Chinnusamy.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 13, under issue no. 07/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This invention describes a synthetic 86-nucleotide guide RNA (gRNA) scaffold engineered to enhance the efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in plants. Th...