US Patent Issued to GENECTIVE on Nov. 3 for "GPP(Cry)34-like insecticidal proteins" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,241, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GENECTIVE (Saint-Beauzire, France).

"GPP(Cry)34-like insecticidal proteins" was invented by Christophe Sallaud (Chappes, France), Laurent Decousset (Marsat, France) and Joseph Morrissey (Mahomet, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are transformed plants, transformed plants, transformed plant tissues, transformed plant cells, and transformed plant seeds having a recombinant nucleic acid molecule encoding a polypeptide having pesticidal activity. Also disclosed are methods of protecting a plant from infection by a plant pathogen by transforming plants, plant tissues, plant cells, and pla...