US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 3 for "Immune regulators involved in defense against plant diseases caused by liberibacter species" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,238, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Immune regulators involved in defense against plant diseases caused by liberibacter species" was invented by Hailing Jin (Riverside, Calif.) and Chien Yu Huang (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for increasing resistance of plants to a disease caused by infection with bacteria of a Liberibacter species."

The patent was filed on Feb. 9, 2022, under Application No. 18/264,890.

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