US Patent Issued to GUANGXI UNIVERSITY on Nov. 3 for "Virulence factor FsPL gene from sugarcane pokkah boeng disease and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,136, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GUANGXI UNIVERSITY (Nanning, China).

"Virulence factor FsPL gene from sugarcane pokkah boeng disease and use thereof" was invented by Wei Yao (Nanning, China), Zhen Huang (Nanning, China), Zhenzhen Duan (Nanning, China), Muqing Zhang (Nanning, China), Caixia Wang (Nanning, China), Yixue Bao (Nanning, China) and Huixue Li (Nanning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virulence factor FsPL gene from the sugarcane pokkah boeng disease and use thereof are provided. The virulence factor FsPL gene from the sugarcane pokkah boeng disease has a sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1. The present invention...