US Patent Issued to CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY on April 14 for "Maize gene KRN2 and uses thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,976, issued on April 14, was assigned to CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Maize gene KRN2 and uses thereof" was invented by Xiaohong Yang (Beijing), Jiansheng Li (Beijing), Wenkang Chen (Beijing), Xuan Zhang (Beijing), Lichun Cai (Beijing) and Yirong Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are KRN2 gene controlling kernel row number in plant, molecular markers closely linked to KRN2 and their application in molecular breeding."

The patent was filed on April 4, 2024, under Application No. 18/626,739.

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