US Patent Issued to CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY on July 28 for "Gene ZmPLD3 for inducing maize maternal haploid production and its application thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,507, issued on July 28, was assigned to CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Gene ZmPLD3 for inducing maize maternal haploid production and its application thereof" was invented by Jinsheng Lai (Beijing), Yuan Li (Beijing), Weibin Song (Beijing) and Haiming Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gene ZmPLD3 for inducing maize maternal haploid production and its application thereof. Transgenic homozygous mutant plants or their progeny can be obtained by knocking out the ZmPLD3 gene in maize, and maize maternal haploids can be produced by hybridizing them as paternal materials with other maize materials. A series of alleli...