ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,759, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
"Puccinia resistance gene" was invented by Evans Lagudah (Ngunnawal, Australia), Jianping Zhang (Acton, Australia) and Peng Zhang (Cobbitty, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a plant which has integrated into its genome an exogenous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide which confers resistance to at least one strain of Puccinia graminis."
The patent was filed on Nov. 10, 2020, under Application No. 17/775,556.
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