US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on Oct. 27 for "Compositions and related methods for modulating alkaloid production by controlling PMT promoter activation mediated by transcriptional factors ERF and Myc" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,308, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Compositions and related methods for modulating alkaloid production by controlling PMT promoter activation mediated by transcriptional factors ERF and Myc" was invented by Michael Paul Timko (Charlottesville, Va.), Paul J. Rushton (Brookings, S.D.), Sheng-Cheng Han (Charlottesville, Va.), Hongbo Zhang (Chongging, China) and Marta Tatiana Bokowiec (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for modifying the production levels of alkaloids in plants are provided. Alkaloid production can be genetica...