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Argentina patented a technology in genes that increases yields

Fresh Common Potato
Soybean
Maize (Corn)
Alfalfa
Argentina
Published Sep 29, 2022

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The Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Buenos Aires (FAUBA) and the Conicet obtained a patent for a technology that can be applied to various crops and could improve their yields. It is a gene that increases the photosynthesis of plants, without causing negative effects on their growth or development. So far, it has been tested in potato cultivation and they have proposals to incorporate this technology in soybeans, corn, alfalfa and cannabis. "We developed a genetic construction that ...allows us to increase the levels of a gene that is very present in the plant kingdom, with its biological function preserved," explained Carlos Crocco, professor of Plant Physiology at the Faculty of Agronomy of the UBA (FAUBA). . THE BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY The teacher recalled that in 2018, they began to process the development patent, which has already been approved by the United States Patent Office. This means that companies that want to use this technology with

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The Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Buenos Aires (FAUBA) and the Conicet obtained a patent for a technology that can be applied to various crops and could improve their yields. It is a gene that increases the photosynthesis of plants, without causing negative effects on their growth or development. So far, it has been tested in potato cultivation and they have proposals to incorporate this technology in soybeans, corn, alfalfa and cannabis. "We developed a genetic construction that allows us to increase the levels of a gene that is very present in the plant kingdom, with its biological function preserved," explained Carlos Crocco, professor of Plant Physiology at the Faculty of Agronomy of the UBA (FAUBA). . THE BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY The teacher recalled that in 2018, they began to process the development patent, which has already been approved by the United States Patent Office. This means that companies that want to use this technology for commercial purposes must ...
Source: ARInfocampo
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