US Patent Issued to HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY on March 3 for "Plant pathogen effector and disease resistance gene identification, compositions, and methods of use" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,662, issued on March 3, was assigned to HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (Wuhan, China).

"Plant pathogen effector and disease resistance gene identification, compositions, and methods of use" was invented by Zhibing Lai (Hubei, China), Bao Zhang (Hubei, China), Jiali Wang (Hubei, China), Junshi Huang (Hubei, China), Hongze Wang (Hubei, China) and Haoxuan Min (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The compositions and methods are related to plant breeding and methods of identifying and selecting disease resistance genes and plant pathogen effector genes. Provided are methods to identify novel genes that encode plant pathogen eff...