US Patent Issued to Novozymes BIOAG on Feb. 17 for "Seed treatment methods and compositions" (Virginia, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,727, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Novozymes BIOAG A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Seed treatment methods and compositions" was invented by R. Stewart Smith (Salem, Va.), Ahsan Habib (Salem, Va.) and John Kosanke (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of enhancing plant growth, comprising treating seed at least one month prior to planting with an effective amount of a plant signal molecule, wherein upon harvesting the plant exhibits at least one of increased plant yield measured in terms of bushels/acre, increased root number, increased root length, increased root mass, increased root volume and increa...