ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,795, issued on June 3, was assigned to BASF Agricultural Solutions US LLC (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).
"Clubroot resistant brassica plants" was invented by Thi Ninh Thuan Nguyen (Deinze, Belgium), Godfrey Chongo (Saskatoon, Canada), Jasper Devlamynck (Deinze, Belgium) and Geoffrey Wagner (Zwijnaarde, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides low erucic, clubroot resistant Brassica plants, plant material and seeds, characterized in that these products harbor a specific CrS clubroot resistance locus in their genome. Tools are also provided which allow detection of the CrS clubroot resistance locus."
The patent wa...