US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on Sept. 29 for "Methods and compositions for generating dominant brachytic alleles using genome editing" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,433, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and compositions for generating dominant brachytic alleles using genome editing" was invented by Edward J. Cargill (Chesterfield, Mo.), Linda A. Rymarquis (High Ridge, Mo.) and Michelle Valentine (Troy, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for altering auxin accumulation in corn or maize plants. Methods and compositions are also provided for altering the expression of genes related to auxin efflux through editing or mutagenesis of a brachytic2 (br2) gene to introduce a premature stop codon or ...