Patents by Inventor Wenbo Zuo

Wenbo Zuo 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).

  • Publication number: 20150344897
    Abstract: The present invention is a method of shoot apical meristem transformation for monocot plant via sufficient and micro wounding (SMW). The technical process includes: expose the apical meristem by removing the coleoptile away when the shoot grows to 0.2-2 cm after 1-2 days of seed germination; make sufficient and micro wounding transformation to the apical meristem by stabbing and brushing for 2-3 times using the SMW brush having 100-5000 bristles which is 4-20 ?m in diameter for each one and 0.5-3 mm in exposed length, and dipped with the Agrobacterium tumefaciens containing binary vector harboring exogenous genes; develop the treated meristems directly to normal plants after co-cultivation; promote the plants to develop big spikes and set more seeds; harvest the seeds of T0 plants separately; detect and identify the transformation results in T1 generation which is bred from each individual T0 plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: HEBEI ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY SCIENCES, INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND PHYSIOLOGY
    Inventors: Haibo Wang, Fushuang Dong, Mengyu Lv, Yanmin Zhang, Zhiheng Ren, Fan Yang, Xinchao Liang, Wenbo Zuo, Xueping Shi, Huanhuan Zhang, Yiping Gao, He Zhao, Xian Xu, Guozhong Sun, Jianfang Chai, Yongwei Liu, Jinyong Zhu, Qiufen Han, Qiang Zhang, Huijie Ma, Zhanwu Wang, Junfeng Guan