US Patent Issued to Nanyang Technological University on Sept. 29 for "Engineered regulator for improved plant oil yield" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,446, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Engineered regulator for improved plant oil yield" was invented by Yonggui Gao (Singapore), Wei Ma (Singapore), Zhu Qiao (Singapore) and Que Kong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to isolated polynucleotides or polypeptides that lead to improved plant oil yields. Disclosed herein is an isolated polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide that is distinguished from a wild-type Wrinkledt polypeptide by at least one amino acid substitution in the wild-type Wrinkledt amino acid sequence. In an embodiment, the at least ...