US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on Sept. 29 for "Reducing nitrate reductase activity in tabacco and methods for its use" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,741, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Reducing nitrate reductase activity in tabacco and methods for its use" was invented by Shoichi Suzuki (Tokyo), Ryo Okada (Tokyo) and Soichiro Noguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a tobacco plant and the like. The tobacco plant of the present invention contains nitrate reductase in which an amino acid residue corresponding to position 525 in an amino acid sequence corresponding to SEQ ID NO: 2 or 4 is mutated from proline to an amino acid residue other than proline. In one embodiment, the tobacco plant has one or more prope...