ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,663, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Confluence Genetics LLC (St. Louis).
"Yellow field pea cultivar 3997496" was invented by Bala B. Pudota (Chesterfield, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field pea cultivar designated 3997496 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds, plants, and plant parts of field pea cultivar 3997496, and methods for producing a field pea plants by crossing field pea cultivar 3997496 with itself or with another field pea variety. Embodiments further include methods for producing field pea plants containing one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic field pea plants and plant parts produced by th...