US Patent Issued on May 13 for "DNA barcode for variety identification of wolfberry and identification method therefor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,512, issued on May 13.

"DNA barcode for variety identification of wolfberry and identification method therefor" was invented by Zhigang Shi (Ningxia, China), Ru Wan (Ningxia, China), Xiuying Wang (Ningxia, China), Xiyan Zhang (Ningxia, China), Yunxiang Li (Ningxia, China), Libin Yang (Ningxia, China), Xiao Wang (Ningxia, China) and Tinghui Ma (Ningxia, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention belongs to the technical field of species identification of Lycium chinensis, specially relating to a DNA barcode for identifying Lycium chinensis species and an identification method therefor. The DNA barcorde provide by the present i...