US Patent Issued to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE on June 9 for "Tissue-specific expression and hybrid plant production" (Indiana, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,925, issued on June 9, was assigned to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE LLC (Indianapolis).

"Tissue-specific expression and hybrid plant production" was invented by Sandeep Kumar (Carmel, Ind.), Marcelo Ariel German (Portland, Ore.), Tristan E Coram (Zionsville, Ind.) and Terry R. Wright (Westfield, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure concerns the use of endogenous plant RNAi machinery to preferentially or specifically reduce transgene expression. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns specific reduction of transgene expression in male plant tissues, for example, to provide an economical male sterility system of hybrid seed p...