US Patent Issued to Kansas State University Research Foundation on July 7 for "Methods and compositions for developing cereal varieties with chilling tolerance" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,619, issued on July 7, was assigned to Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kan.).

"Methods and compositions for developing cereal varieties with chilling tolerance" was invented by Geoffrey P. Morris (Manhattan, Kan.), Terry Felderhoff (Manhattan, Kan.) and Sandeep Marla (Manhattan, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are markers which are associated with chilling tolerance and provide for breeding methods to identify such plants to integrate this trait into cereal plants and further to identify analogous markers in other cereal plants. Importantly, these markers are not linked with deleterious tra...