US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on Aug. 4 for "Compositions and methods for the detection of a chromosomal translocation in Brassica napus" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,539, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Compositions and methods for the detection of a chromosomal translocation in Brassica napus" was invented by David George Charne (Guelph, Canada), Kevin A Fengler (Clive, Iowa), Siva S. Ammiraju Jetty (Johnston, Iowa) and Scott Charles Jobgen (West Des Moines, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compositions and methods for the detection of a chromosomal location in Brassica napus. This disclosure is generally related to the field of plant molecular biology, and in particular embodiments, to the field of detecting a chromosomal tr...