US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation, SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION on May 19 for "Plant cell chromosome doubling by application of electromagnetic field" (North Carolina, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,750, issued on May 19, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.) and SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Plant cell chromosome doubling by application of electromagnetic field" was invented by William Paul Bullock (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Rachel L. Egger (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Allen L. Garner (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Aginiprakash Dhanabal (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for the doubling of a plant cell's chromosome by applying an electromagnetic field and methods for obtaining a doubled-haploid plant cell. In some embodiments, the plant...