US Patent Issued to KIKKOMAN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY on Dec. 9 for "Solanaceous plant resistant to virus of genus Begomovirus causing tomato yellow leaf curl symptoms, solanaceous plant cell, and method for producing solanaceous plant" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,409, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KIKKOMAN Corp. (Noda, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY (Sapporo, Japan).

"Solanaceous plant resistant to virus of genus Begomovirus causing tomato yellow leaf curl symptoms, solanaceous plant cell, and method for producing solanaceous plant" was invented by Hiroki Atarashi (Chiba, Japan) and Kenji Nakahara (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Present invention relates to a virus resistant solanaceous plant, a solanaceous plant cell, and a method for producing the solanaceous plant, and the solanaceous plant has inhibitory properties against: infection by a...