US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on March 31 for "Compositions and methods for improving plant growth and abiotic stress tolerance" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,043, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Compositions and methods for improving plant growth and abiotic stress tolerance" was invented by Bingru Huang (East Brunswick, N.J.), Ning Zhang (East Brunswick, N.J.) and William Errickson (West Belmar, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for enhancing plant growth and resistance to abiotic stressors are disclosed."

The patent was filed on Aug. 14, 2020, under Application No. 17/614,983.

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