ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,073, issued on April 14, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).
"Wheat CENH3 alleles" was invented by Jian Lv (Beijing), Kun Yu (Beijing), Juan Wei (Beijing), Chunxia Liu (Beijing), Hongju Zhou (Beijing) and Timothy Kelliher (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to wheat plants comprising a mutation causing an alteration of the amino acid sequence in centromere histone H3 (CENH3), which have the biological activity of a haploid inducer. Further, the present invention provides methods of generating the wheat plants of the present invention and haploid and...