US Patent Issued to KYOTO PREFECTURAL PUBLIC UNIVERSITY, KYOTO SANGYO UNIVERSITY on Sept. 22 for "Peptide having plant stem cell-inducing effect and plant pest resistance-inducing effect" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,994, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to KYOTO PREFECTURAL PUBLIC UNIVERSITY Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and KYOTO SANGYO UNIVERSITY (Kyoto, Japan).

"Peptide having plant stem cell-inducing effect and plant pest resistance-inducing effect" was invented by Masahiko Sato (Kyoto, Japan), Issei Ohshima (Kyoto, Japan), Tomoko Hirano (Kyoto, Japan) and Seisuke Kimura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a partial peptide of cysteine-rich secretory protein, antigen 5, and pathogenesis-related 1 (CAP), consisting of an amino acid sequence of the conserved region of CAP, the peptide having at least one effect selected from the...