US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Feb. 17 for "Compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants and products having altered alkaloid levels" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,058, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants and products having altered alkaloid levels" was invented by Andrew Carl Adams (Midlothian, Va.), Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso (Chesterfield, Va.), Sreepriya Pramod (Glen Allen, Va.) and Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides the identification of tobacco Nic1 locus. Also provided are tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, an...