US Patent Issued to Pairwise Plants Services, Monsanto Technology on Aug. 4 for "Methods and compositions for improving yield characteristics in plants" (North Carolina, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,506, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Pairwise Plants Services Inc. (Durham, N.C.) and Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and compositions for improving yield characteristics in plants" was invented by Lolita George Mathew (Cary, N.C.), Graziana Taramino (St. Louis) and Thomas Louis Slewinski (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to compositions and methods for modifying a Plant AT-rich sequence- and Zinc-binding protein 8 (PLATZ8) gene in plants to improve yield traits. The invention further relates to plants and plant parts produced using the methods and compositions of the invention."

The pat...