ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,841, issued on April 21, was assigned to HENAN SESAME RESEARCH CENTER, HENAN ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (Zhengzhou, China).

"Sesame seed shattering resistance trait regulation gene Sihec3 and application thereof" was invented by Haiyang Zhang (Zhengzhou, China), Hongmei Miao (Zhengzhou, China), Ming Ju (Zhengzhou, China), Qin Ma (Zhengzhou, China), Hengchun Cao (Zhengzhou, China), Zhanyou Zhang (Zhengzhou, China), Guiting Li (Zhengzhou, China), Yinghui Duan (Zhengzhou, China), Cong Mu (Zhengzhou, China), Qiuzhen Tian (Zhengzhou, China), Huili Wang (Zhengzhou, China), Lingling Qin (Zhengzhou, China) and Yingying Huang (Zhengzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released ...