US PATENT SUBCLASS 800 / 261
.~ Breeding for altered sterol composition

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800 /   HD   MULTICELLULAR LIVING ORGANISMS AND UNMODIFIED PARTS THEREOF AND RELATED PROCESSES

260  DF  METHOD OF USING A PLANT OR PLANT PART IN A BREEDING PROCESS WHICH INCLUDES A STEP OF SEXUAL HYBRIDIZATION {11}
261.~ Breeding for altered sterol composition

DEFINITION

Classification: 800/261

Breeding for altered sterol composition:

(under subclass 260) Method wherein the stable or transient change produced in a plant or plant part results in a change in the absolute or relative amount of one or more sterol compounds in the plant.

(1) Note. A sterol is a compound with a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon of a cyclopentanohydrophenanthrene ring system.

(2) Note. This subclass also provides for the case where a qualitative change to a sterol is actually a decrease of that sterol and an increase of the resultant sterol.