ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,173, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Oterra A/S (Hellerup, Denmark) and AARHUS UNIVERSITY (Aarhus, Denmark).
"Anthocyanin biosynthesis in carrot plants" was invented by Shrikant Sharma (Aarhus, Denmark), Giuseppe Dionisio (Aarhus, Denmark), Inger Baeksted Holme (Aarhus, Denmark), Bjarne Joernsgaard (Hoersholm, Denmark) and Henrik Brinch-Pedersen (Aarhus, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides transgenic carrot plants comprising at least one heterologous DNA sequence encoding: (a) a promoter of a transcription factor gene; or (b) a transcription factor geneoperably linked to a promoter; wherein the ...