US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on Aug. 25 for "Methods for plant transformation" (Iowa, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,071, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Methods for plant transformation" was invented by Ajith Anand (West Des Moines, Iowa), William James Gordon-Kamm (Urbandale, Iowa), George J Hoerster (Des Moines, Iowa), Keith S Lowe (Johnston, Iowa) and Kevin E McBride (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods disclosed herein use a morphogenic gene or a repressor gene to provide a transgenic plant containing a single copy of a transgenic event wherein the morphogenic gene or the repressor gene does not integrate into the genome of the plant and the plant does not contain ve...