US Patent Issued to KWS SAAT, STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH on Jan. 20 for "Promoting regeneration and transformation in plants" (Dutch, German, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,270, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA (Einbeck, Germany) and STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH (Wageningen, Netherlands).

"Promoting regeneration and transformation in plants" was invented by Jixiang Kong (Ghent, Belgium), Susana Martin-Ortigosa (Einbeck, Germany), David Pacheco Villalobos (Einbeck, Germany), Christine Kastner (Einbeck, Germany), Frank Ludewig (Einbeck, Germany), Anneke Horstman (Lent, Netherlands) and Kimberly Anne Boutilier (De Meern, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of plant breeding and in particular to the regeneration of plants from cells...