ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,544, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ZHUHAI RUNNONG SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Zhuhai, China).

"Use of higher fatty alcohol in fatty acid metabolic pathway of cruciferous plant" was invented by Dianxian Cai (Zhuhai, China), Yunhao Sun (Zhuhai, China), Xiaoming Peng (Zhuhai, China), Guohui Yu (Zhuhai, China) and Di Qin (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The emulsifiers containing higher fatty alcohols can affect the transcription levels of genes related to phenylpropanoid-related biosynthetic pathway, fatty acid metabolic pathway, and brassinolide and strigolactone biosynthetic pathways through external application,...