US Patent Issued to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES on March 17 for "Compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants and products having altered alkaloid levels" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,536, issued on March 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 Sreepriya Pramod (Fredericksburg, Va.), Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso (Chesterfield, Va.), Jesse Frederick (Richmond, Va.), Andrew Carl Adams (Midlothian, Va.) and Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides tobacco Nic1b locus and associated genes (e.g., a group of ERF genes). Also provided are tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable lea...