US Patent Issued to Nunhems on Dec. 2 for "Solanum lycopersicum plants having improved tobamovirus resistance" (Dutch, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,545, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Nunhems B.V. (Nunhem, Netherlands).

"Solanum lycopersicum plants having improved tobamovirus resistance" was invented by Frank Millenaar (Nunhem, Netherlands), Pernelle Vredenbregt (Nunhem, Netherlands), Jochem Altena (Nunhem, Netherlands), Marco Antonio Mammella (Sant Agata Bolognese, Italy) and Henk Verbakel (Nunhem, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a hybrid Solanum lycopersicum plant comprising in its genome at least one copy of the Rug-1 resistance gene, wherein said Rug-1 resistance gene is capable of conferring a Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (To...