US Patent Issued to Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences on May 19 for "Single-nucleotide polymorphism locus significantly related to yardlong bean anthocyanin content, kompetitive allele-specific polymerase chain reaction markers and application thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,888, issued on May 19, was assigned to Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Nanjing, China).

"Single-nucleotide polymorphism locus significantly related to yardlong bean anthocyanin content, kompetitive allele-specific polymerase chain reaction markers and application thereof" was invented by Hongmei Zhang (Nanjing, China), Wei Zhang (Nanjing, China), Shan Meng (Nanjing, China), Huatao Chen (Nanjing, China), Xiaoqing Liu (Nanjing, China), Xin Chen (Nanjing, China), Xiaoyan Cui (Nanjing, China) and Qiong Wang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An SNP marker significantly related with yardlong bean anthocyanin content i...