US Patent Issued to Iowa State University Research Foundation on Feb. 24 for "Modification of transcriptional repressor binding site in NF-YC4 promoter for increased protein content and resistance to stress" (Mississippi, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,767, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Modification of transcriptional repressor binding site in NF-YC4 promoter for increased protein content and resistance to stress" was invented by Ling Li (Starkville, Miss.) and Eve Syrkin Wurtele (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of increasing protein content in a eukaryotic cell comprising an NF-YC4 gene comprising modifying the transcriptional repressor binding site; method of producing a plant with increased protein content comprising crossing and selecting for increased protein content; method of increasing resis...