US Patent Issued to Cornell University on Jan. 19 for "Engineering heat-stable disease resistance in plants" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 9,238,680, issued on Jan. 19, was assigned to Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.). "Engineering heat-stable disease resistance in plants" was invented by Jian Hua (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Ying Zhu (Hangzhou, China). According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are nucleic acid molecules which encode heat-stable plant resistance polypeptides having NB-LRR structural motifs, where the polypeptide confers heat-stability to a plant defense response...