US Patent Issued to SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY on July 21 for "Method for boosting genetic transformation efficiency of wheat using agrobacterium-mediated method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,872, issued on July 21, was assigned to SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (Tai'an City, China).

"Method for boosting genetic transformation efficiency of wheat using agrobacterium-mediated method" was invented by Xiansheng Zhang (Tai'an City, China), Xiaomin Bie (Tai'an City, China), Menglu Li (Tai'an City, China), Yanyan Chang (Tai'an City, China) and Ying Song (Tai'an City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for boosting genetic transformation efficiency of wheat using an Agrobacterium-mediated method, which belongs to the field of plant genetic engineering technology. A TaHRF2 gene and an encoded protein the...