US Patent Issued to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES on April 21 for "Compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants and products having altered alkaloid levels with desirable leaf quality" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,840, issued on April 21, was assigned to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants and products having altered alkaloid levels with desirable leaf quality" was invented by Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso (Chesterfield, Va.), James A. Strickland (Richmond, Va.), Jesse Frederick (Richmond, Va.), Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Va.) and Chengalrayan Kudithipudi (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes methods and compositions for improving leaf quality in low-alkaloid tobacco plants, e.g., by combining inducible promoters and non-coding RNAs for supp...