US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on April 7 for "Methods for generating plants producing seeds having altered seed composition" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,766, issued on April 7, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Methods for generating plants producing seeds having altered seed composition" was invented by Janel M Bettis (Urbandale, Iowa), John D Everard (Grimes, Iowa), Kristin Haug Collet (Des Moines, Iowa), Bo Shen (Johnston, Iowa) and Shreedharan Sriram (Waukee, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for producing plants having seeds with an increased protein and/or oil content using mutagenesis and non-destructive chemical analysis. Additionally, provided are methods for identifying causative mutations associated with increased ...