US Patent Issued to Pairwise Plants Services on Feb. 17 for "Methods and compositions for modifying cytokinin receptor histidine kinase genes in plants" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,061, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Pairwise Plants Services Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Methods and compositions for modifying cytokinin receptor histidine kinase genes in plants" was invented by Lolita George Mathew (Cary, N.C.), Xiaoyu Zhang (Cary, N.C.) and Devin O'Connor (Hillsborough, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to compositions and methods for modifying Cytokinin Receptor Histidine Kinase (HK) genes in plants, optionally to improve yield traits, the HK genes encoding a histidine kinase (HK) polypeptide. The invention further relates to plants having increased improved yield traits produced using the...