Patents by Inventor Jinsong Xing

Jinsong Xing has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of making pathogen-resistant plants by transformation with a fatty acid desaturase gene
    Patent number: 6225528
    Abstract: The present invention provides pathogen-resistant transgenic plants and methods of making the plants. The transgenic plants display enhanced resistance to a variety of fungal, bacterial and viral plant pathogens due to expression of a gene that increases the unsaturated fatty acid content of the plant's cells, as compared with an equivalent, but non-transformed plant. The preferred embodiment of the invention is a plant expressing a heterologous &Dgr;-9 desaturase gene from yeast, which particularly increases cytosolic quantities of 16:1, 16:2 and 18:1 fatty acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
    Inventors: Chee-Kok Chin, Chunlin Wang, Jinsong Xing