US Patent Issued to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (IISER) on May 19 for "Nucleic acid constructs, plants with increased tuber yield, and methods for increasing tuber yield in a plant" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,835, issued on May 19, was assigned to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Ames, Iowa) and INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (IISER) (Pune, India).

"Nucleic acid constructs, plants with increased tuber yield, and methods for increasing tuber yield in a plant" was invented by David J. Hannapel (Ames, Iowa) and Anjan K. Banerjee (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a nucleic acid construct. The nucleic acid construct includes a nucleic acid molecule configured to silence or reduce the expression of StBEL11 and/or StBEL29 and variants thereof, a 5' DNA promoter sequence...