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2025-012: Engineered AtMC9 for Improved Plant Stress Resilience and Immunity

Invention: 2025-012

Patent Status: Provisional filed on May 23, 2025

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Summary

In this joint invention researchers from Brookhaven and Rutgers University have successfully engineered enhanced variants of metacaspase 9 (AtMC9), demonstrating improved activity profiles that pave the way for bioengineering crops with greater stress tolerance and disease resistance.

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Journal Publication & Intellectual Property

• Structural determinants for pH-dependent activation of a plant metacaspase (.pdf)