US Patent Issued to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION on July 14 for "Stem rust resistance gene" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,106, issued on July 14, was assigned to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION (Acton, Australia).

"Stem rust resistance gene" was invented by Peter Norman Dodds (Canberra, Australia), Timothy Charles Hewitt (Canberra, Australia), Rohit Mago (Canberra, Australia) and Narayana Mithur Upadhyaya (Canberra, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for enhancing the resistance of plants, particularly wheat and triticale plants to stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici are provided. The compositions comprise nucleic acid molecules encoding resistance (R) gene products and variant...