US Patent Issued to Pairwise Plants Services on Feb. 10 for "Mutation of growth regulating factor family transcription factors for enhanced plant growth" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,924, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Pairwise Plants Services Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Mutation of growth regulating factor family transcription factors for enhanced plant growth" was invented by Brian Charles Wilding Crawford (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to compositions and methods for modifying Growth Regulating Factor (GRF) family transcription factors in plants to produce plants having improved phenotypic characteristics including increased growth. The invention further relates to plants produced using the methods and compositions of the invention."

The patent was filed on March 19, 2024, und...