US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on Sept. 29 for "Methods and compositions for increasing harvestable yield via editing GA20 oxidase genes to generate short stature plants" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,445, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and compositions for increasing harvestable yield via editing GA20 oxidase genes to generate short stature plants" was invented by Sivalinganna Manjunath (Chesterfield, Mo.), Linda A. Rymarquis (High Ridge, Mo.) and Thomas L. Slewinski (Chesterfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for the editing or mutating of specific subtypes of GA20 oxidase genes and specific zygosity combinations of those edits or mutations. Modified plants, and plant parts and cells thereof, having mutations reduci...