US Patent Issued to Nanjing Agricultural University on June 30 for "Use of Glycine max GmSAMMT gene in regulation of protein content and/or yield of plant" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,614, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nanjing Agricultural University (Nanjing, China).

"Use of Glycine max GmSAMMT gene in regulation of protein content and/or yield of plant" was invented by Deyue Yu (Nanjing, China), Guizhen Kan (Nanjing, China) and Wenjie Yuan (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the technical field of genetic engineering, and in particular to a use of a Glycine max GmSAMMT gene in regulation of a protein content and/or a yield of a plant. The present disclosure has proved through experiments that an expression level of the GmSAMMT gene in a GmSAMMT-knockout line is s...