US Patent Issued to Anhui Agricultural University on Sept. 8 for "Tea plant CsVAAT3 gene and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,382, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Anhui Agricultural University (Hefei, China).

"Tea plant CsVAAT3 gene and use thereof" was invented by Tianyuan Yang (Hefei, China), Junjie Wang (Hefei, China), Xiaojuan Fan (Hefei, China), Zhaoliang Zhang (Hefei, China), Xiaohong Lian (Hefei, China), Xinpeng Zhao (Hefei, China) and Xiaocao Luo (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a tea plant CsVAAT3 gene and use thereof. The tea plant CsVAAT3 gene has a nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. A protein coded by the tea plant CsVAAT3 gene has an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2. An expression ...