US Patent Issued to Sichuan Agricultural University on March 17 for "Application of rice NAT protein and coding gene thereof in regulation and control of plant disease resistance" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,578, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sichuan Agricultural University (Chengdu, China).

"Application of rice NAT protein and coding gene thereof in regulation and control of plant disease resistance" was invented by Jing Wang (Chengdu, China), Xuewei Chen (Chengdu, China), Xiang Lu (Chengdu, China), Qing Xiong (Chengdu, China) and Qian Yan (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application of rice NAT protein and a coding gene thereof in regulation and control of plant disease resistance, a method for regulating and controlling rice resistance to rice blast and a method for cultivating transgenic rice with high resista...