US Patent Issued to NUNHEMS on Oct. 14 for "Oomycete resistance in cucumber and tomato" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,014, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NUNHEMS B.V. (Nunhem, Netherlands).

"Oomycete resistance in cucumber and tomato" was invented by Jeroen Anne Berg (Wageningen, Netherlands), Hendrik Jacob Schouten (Wageningen, Netherlands), Frank Beenders (Nunhem, Netherlands), Freddy Hermans (Nunhem, Netherlands) and Wim Vriezen (Nunhem, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to cucumber and tomato plants comprising reduced susceptibility to pathogenic oomycetes due to the modification of a susceptibility gene of the plant."

The patent was filed on May 18, 2020, under Application No. 17/613,413.

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