US Patent Issued to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE, Purdue Research Foundation on March 17 for "Compositions and methods to increase resistance to phytophthora sojae in soybean" (Indiana, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,577, issued on March 17, was assigned to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE LLC (Indianapolis) and Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Compositions and methods to increase resistance to phytophthora sojae in soybean" was invented by Jianxin Ma (West Lafayette, Ind.), Rajat Aggarwal (Indianapolis), Liyang Chen (West Lafayette, Ind.), Weidong Wang (West Lafayette, Ind.), Oswald Crasta (Banford, Conn.) and Jonathan Myrvold (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compositions comprising polynucleotides encoding Rps genes, and soybean plants or soybean seeds comprising the compositions and exhibiting resistance to Phyt...