Kent State Biology Professor Studies How Selfish Genes Cause Male Sterility in Flowering Plants

Kent State Biology Professor Studies How Selfish Genes Cause Male Sterility in Flowering Plants Why are plants often sterile when their parents are from different species? How do species remain separate entities in nature? Andrea L. Case, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, co-authored an article that may provide some answers to these basic questions in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which was recently published online.  In their article, "Selfish evolution of cy...

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  1. Definitions. As used in this statement of policy, the following terms have the meaning indicated:
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University policy regarding patents

  1. Preamble. According to the section 3345.14 of the Revised Code, "All rights and interests in discoveries or inventions, including patents thereon, which result from research or investigation conducted in any experiment station, bureau, laboratory, or research facility of any state college or university shall be the sole property of such college or university." Thus, the university has the right to license, sell, or otherwise dispose of the rights to inventions in which the university has an interest.
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