US Patent Issued to University of Georgia Research Foundation, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on June 23 for "Heterozygous CENH3 monocots and methods of use thereof for haploid induction and simultaneous genome editing" (Georgia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,769, issued on June 23, was assigned to University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc. (Athens, Ga.) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.).

"Heterozygous CENH3 monocots and methods of use thereof for haploid induction and simultaneous genome editing" was invented by R. Kelly Dawe (Athens, Ga.) and David Jackson (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monocot plants heterozygous for centromeric histone 3 (CenH3) and optionally expressing gene editing constructs, for use in inducing haploids of a monocot target plant and optionally pass-through gene editing are provided. The monocot haploid inducer plants ...