ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,070, issued on April 14, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).
"Genetic loci associated with disease resistance in soybeans" was invented by Qingli Liu (Durham, N.C.), Robert Arthur Dietrich (Durham, N.C.), Thomas Joseph Curley Jr. (Durham, N.C.), John Daniel Hipskind (Durham, N.C.), Becky Welsh Breitinger (Durham, N.C.) and John Luther Dawson (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying, selecting and/or producing a Disease resistant soybean plant or germplasm using markers, genes and chromosomal intervals derived from Glycine clan...