US Patent Issued to NEC on July 21 for "Method for sensing plant hormone using rare earth compound, sensor using the same, and method for early detection of disease infection in plant" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,552, issued on July 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for sensing plant hormone using rare earth compound, sensor using the same, and method for early detection of disease infection in plant" was invented by Katsumi Maeda (Tokyo) and Shigeyuki Iwasa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for sensing methyl salicylate, which is a plant hormone released when a plant is infected with a disease in cultivation of plants including agricultural crops, and thereby provided a method for early in-situ detection of disease infection in a plant. With the present embodiment, disease infection in a plant can be det...