MUMBAI, India, June 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617038186 A) filed by Ifp Energies Nouvelles on March 27, 2026, for Non-Antibiotic Selectable Marker For Filamentous Fungi.
Inventors include Mathis, Hugues; and Michel, Thomas.
The application for the patent was published on June 19, 2026, under issue no. 25/2026.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a strain of filamentous fungus belonging to the division Ascomycetes, excluding a fungus belonging to the class Saccharomycetes, in which a gene coding for an arginine permease (CAN1), or a variant or an orthologous gene, has been knocked out. The invention also relates to the various uses of the strain and to the genetic modification method allowing a strain according to the invention to be obtained. The invention also relates to the use of L-canavanine as a selectable marker for transformants in which a gene coding for an arginine permease (CAN1), or a variant or an orthologous gene, has been knocked out.
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