ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,174, issued on July 7, was assigned to PLANTARC BIO LTD. (Raanana, Israel).
"Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) resistance plant" was invented by Dror Shalitin (Raanana, Israel), Noam Grimberg (Kibutz Lehavot Haviva, Israel), Daniel Bechar (Kibbutz Givat Haim Meuhad, Israel), Tal Cohen (Herzelyia, Israel), Aviva Katz (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Martin Mandelbaum (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are transgenic plant expressing a fungal protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) enzyme and methods for conferring Herbicide Tolerance (HT) to PPO-type inhibitor herbicides, and controlling weeds, by selectively protecting the tran...