Applied DNA secures patent for cotton identification technology
28/02/2018
The company said the additional patent protects its “proprietary methods of cotton species identification in a manufactured article via the extraction and analysis of target sequences found in the chloroplast DNA of the article.”
Dr James Hayward, president and CEO of Applied DNA, explained: “With the allowance of this patent application, we have now successfully protected both means by which the chloroplast DNA of cotton fibres can be analysed, giving us a strong patent position in the cotton genotyping market.”