US Patent Issued to Lanzhou University on April 14 for "Gene bHLH35 for promoting anthocyanin accumulation of plants and application thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,979, issued on April 14, was assigned to Lanzhou University (Lanzhou, China).

"Gene bHLH35 for promoting anthocyanin accumulation of plants and application thereof" was invented by Jianquan Liu (Lanzhou, China), Pan Zhang (Lanzhou, China), Minjie Li (Lanzhou, China) and Han Zhang (Lanzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for cultivating transgenic plants having increased anthocyanin content and enhanced tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress environments. The method comprises transferring a bHLH35 gene into recipient plants using a genetic engineering transformation method, to obtain tr...