{
  "patent_number": "US 20240167048",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "Making Plant Genetic Engineering More Efficient with a Nitrogen Enzyme",
  "original_title": "Method for improving efficiency of genetic transformation and gene editing in plants",
  "summary": "This patent describes a method to make genetic engineering and gene editing in plants more successful by increasing the activity of a specific gene called NiR, which helps with how plants use nitrogen.",
  "what_it_does": "The invention improves the process of changing plant genes by overexpressing, or making a lot of, the NiR gene within plant cells. This overexpression can be achieved by introducing a special piece of DNA called an expression construct containing the NiR gene into the plant cell (claim 1). This method is used to achieve two main goals: first, to improve the plant's ability to regenerate into a whole plant from a single modified cell (claim 1); and second, to make the actual gene editing or genetic transformation process more efficient (claims 2 and 3). For example, a scientist could introduce the NiR gene alongside a gene editing system like CRISPR (claim 6) into a callus cell (claim 8) of a crop like corn (claim 9) to more easily create a new plant with desired traits.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover plant genetic transformation or gene editing methods that do not involve overexpressing the NiR gene.",
    "Does not cover genetic modification techniques applied to non-plant organisms, such as animal or fungal cells.",
    "Does not cover methods that improve plant traits without involving the regeneration of an intact plant from a modified cell.",
    "Does not cover methods where the NiR gene is not introduced into the plant cell via an expression construct.",
    "Does not cover gene editing systems that are not introduced into the plant cell via an expression construct."
  ],
  "filed": "2022-03-24",
  "granted": null,
  "expires": "2042-03-24",
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Suzhou QI Biodesign Biotechnology Co",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/suzhou-qi-biodesign-biotechnology-co",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Caixia GAO",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/caixia-gao"
    },
    {
      "name": "Lu Chen",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/lu-chen"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 1,
  "tags": [
    "biotech",
    "gene_editing",
    "agriculture",
    "plant_science"
  ],
  "abstract": "The invention belongs to the field of genetic engineering in plants. In particular, the invention relates to a method for improving efficiency of genetic transformation and gene editing in plants. More particularly, the invention relates to a method for improving regeneration efficiency of genetic transformation and/or gene editing efficiency in plants by expression of gene NiR which promotes nitrogen metabolism in plants.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/20240167048/method-for-improving-efficiency-of-genetic-transformation-and-gene-editing-in-pl",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/20240167048/method-for-improving-efficiency-of-genetic-transformation-and-gene-editing-in-pl/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240167048",
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