US Patent Issued to Ceres on March 24 for "Transgenic plants having altered biomass composition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,142, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ceres Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Transgenic plants having altered biomass composition" was invented by Joon-Hyun Park (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Roger I. Pennell (Malibu, Calif.), Richard Flavell (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Chuan-Yin Wu (Newbury Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and materials for modulating biomass composition in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass composition-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having altered biomass composit...