US Patent Issued to Institute of Food Crops, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences on April 14 for "Molecular markers for identifying allele at rice- blast-resistant Pik locus of rice and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,013, issued on April 14, was assigned to Institute of Food Crops, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Wuhan, China).

"Molecular markers for identifying allele at rice- blast-resistant Pik locus of rice and use thereof" was invented by Haiya Cai (Wuhan, China), Yonggang He (Wuhan, China), Shuo Zhang (Wuhan, China), Gang Liu (Wuhan, China), Yanhao Xu (Wuhan, China), Chunhai Jiao (Wuhan, China), Aiqing You (Wuhan, China), Lei Zhou (Wuhan, China) and Xingfei Zheng (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For molecular genetic breeding of crops, molecular markers for identifying an allele at a rice-blast-resistant Pik locus of ri...