US Patent Issued to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE on March 31 for "Methodologies and compositions for creating targeted recombination and breaking linkage between traits" (Iowa, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,313, issued on March 31, was assigned to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE LLC (Indianapolis).

"Methodologies and compositions for creating targeted recombination and breaking linkage between traits" was invented by Sandeep Kumar (Johnston, Iowa), Ryan M. Lee (Brownsburg, Ind.), Stephen Novak (Westfield, Ind.) and Andrew F. Worden (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current disclosure relates to methods and compositions for improving plant varieties through plant breeding and plant genetics. For instance, the disclosure concerns increasing the recombination frequency of a heterozygous trait genetically linked to a second trait within...