What scientists miss when they don't read patents

Read it on Medium (preferred). Why my lab reads patents to understand plant immunity, and the wiki we built so you can too. A tomato immune receptor used in dozens of commercial varieties appears in an Enza Zaden patent as SEQ ID №116. In the Korean member of the family, Google’s machine-translated title promises tomatoes resistant to “Tomato Brown Lugos Fruit Virus,” a misspelling of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV). A useful reminder that this literature can take a little deciphering. We know the receptor as HREZ. More on that below. When my lab looks for interesting plant immune receptors, we read papers. We read preprints. We also read patents.