US Patent Issued to CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY on Feb. 24 for "Maize gene ZmRAVL1 and functional site and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,764, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Maize gene ZmRAVL1 and functional site and use thereof" was invented by Feng Tian (Beijing), Jinge Tian (Beijing) and Chenglong Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a maize gene ZmRAVL1 and a functional site and use thereof. The present invention locates the functional site for controlling the leaf angle phenotype to 240 bp by fine-mapping, and the insertion and deletion of this region lead to different leaf angle phenotypes. The present invention demonstrates that an inbred line improved with an excellent natura...