US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on July 28 for "Methods and compositions for gene expression in plants" (Missouri, Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,510, issued on July 28, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and compositions for gene expression in plants" was invented by Clayton T. Larue (Chesterfield, Mo.), Joel E. Ream (Edmonds, Wash.), Aabid Shariff (Durham, N.C.), Yuanji Zhang (Weldon Spring, Mo.) and Xuefeng Zhou (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides recombinant DNA molecules useful for providing efficient expression of proteins in transgenic plants, as well as compositions and methods for using the recombinant DNA molecules. In particular embodiments, the invention provides recombinant DNA molecules and constructs compri...