ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,160, issued on June 2, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).
"Sorghum cytoplasmic male sterility markers and loci" was invented by Sunita R Chilakamarri (Waukee, Iowa), David Alan Hessel (St George, Kan.), Siva S Ammiraju Jetty (Johnston, Iowa) and Maria Laura Mayor (Manhattan, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and compositions are provided for identifying and/or selecting a sorghum plant or germplasm with or without a cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) trait. In certain embodiments, the method comprises detecting at least one allele of one or more marker locus within or linked to a QTL a...