US Patent Issued to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE on Oct. 21 for "Methods and compositions to select and/or predict cotton plants resistant to Fusarium race-4 resistance in cotton" (Iowa, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,656, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE LLC (Indianapolis).

"Methods and compositions to select and/or predict cotton plants resistant to Fusarium race-4 resistance in cotton" was invented by Ramesh Buyyarapu (Waukee, Iowa), Kelly Parliament (Ankeny, Iowa), Joel F Mahill (Bakersfield, Calif.) and Timothy J. Anderson (Bakersfield, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure concerns methods and compositions for identifying cotton plants that have a Fusarium wilt Race 4 resistance trait. Some embodiments concern molecular markers to identify, select, and/or construct Fusarium wilt Race 4 resistant plants a...