US Patent Issued to NORTHWEST A&F UNIVERSITY on Jan. 13 for "Method for breeding new purple-orange Chinese cabbage germplasm" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,785, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NORTHWEST A&F UNIVERSITY (Xianyang, China).

"Method for breeding new purple-orange Chinese cabbage germplasm" was invented by Lugang Zhang (Xianyang, China), Qianqian Lu (Xianyang, China), Qiong He (Xianyang, China), Yihua Xue (Xianyang, China), Shuai Ma (Xianyang, China), Xiaomin Ma (Xianyang, China) and Shanshan Nie (Xianyang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for breeding new purple-orange Chinese cabbage germplasm crosses the purple head Chinese cabbage inbred line 11S96 as the male parent and the orange Chinese cabbage inbred line 11J11 as the female parent. On the basis of sel...