US Patent Issued to Inner Mongolia University on June 9 for "Use of MfERF026 gene regulation in growth, development, and stress tolerance of Medicago sativa" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,926, issued on June 9, was assigned to Inner Mongolia University (Hohhot City, China).

"Use of MfERF026 gene regulation in growth, development, and stress tolerance of Medicago sativa" was invented by Yiding Niu (Hohhot City, China), Jiabin Fu (Hohhot City, China), Jinfeng Hao (Hohhot City, China) and Yu Wang (Hohhot City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is use of MfERF026 regulation in growth, development, and stress tolerance of Medicago sativa, which belongs to the technical field of plant genetic engineering. Provided is use of a regulatory agent for MfERF026, which is an ethylene responsive factor (ERF) in Medicago ...