US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture on Nov. 3 for "RNAi strategies for control of whitefly" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,239, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington).

"RNAi strategies for control of whitefly" was invented by William M. Wintermantel (Salinas, Calif.), Navneet Kaur (Salinas, Calif.) and Wayne B. Hunter (Port Saint Lucie, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods utilizing double strand ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) to control insects, including whiteflies. More particularly, the present invention relates to several specific synthetic dsRNAs that induce RNA interference (RNAi) in the target insects and methods o...