ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,508, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Keygene N.V. (Wageningen, Netherlands).
"Geminivirus resistant plants" was invented by Marinus Willem Prins (Wageningen, Netherlands), Leonora Johanna Gertruda Van Enckevort (Wageningen, Netherlands) and Hans Peter Versluis (Wageningen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dicot plant cell, plant tissue or plant having a reduced expression of a wild type protein having at least 75% sequence identity with SEQ ID NO. 1 is disclosed. Also disclosed is a plant cell, plant tissue or plant comprising a modified protein and/or a truncated protein having at least about 75% sequence identity when ...