US Patent Issued to SOUTH CHINA BOTANICAL GARDEN, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on Oct. 14 for "Method and biological agent for catalyzing esterification of plant free carotenoids and transgenic plant" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,012, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SOUTH CHINA BOTANICAL GARDEN, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Guangdong, China).

"Method and biological agent for catalyzing esterification of plant free carotenoids and transgenic plant" was invented by Ying Wang (Guangdong, China), Shaohua Zeng (Guangdong, China) and Shuang Lin (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses three carotenoid esterases and the application of their encoding genes. The genes encoding the carotenoid esterase include: LbZAT1 gene with the nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:1, LbZAT2 gene with the nucleotide sequence as shown i...