US Patent Issued to ARCADIA BIOSCIENCES on June 3 for "Wheat with increased resistant starch levels" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,920, issued on June 3, was assigned to ARCADIA BIOSCIENCES INC. (Dallas).

"Wheat with increased resistant starch levels" was invented by Ann J. Slade (Bellevue, Wash.), Dayna L Loeffler (Seattle), Aaron M. Holm (Shoreline, Wash.) and Jessica C. Mullenberg (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A series of independent human-induced non-transgenic mutations found at one or more of the SBEII genes of wheat; wheat plants having these mutations in one or more of their SBEII genes; and a method of creating and finding similar and/or additional mutations of SBEII by screening pooled and/or individual wheat plants. The seeds and flou...