ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,503, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ohalo Genetics Inc. (Aptos, Calif.).
"Polyploid hybrid potato breeding" was invented by Judson Arthur Ward (Watsonville, Calif.), Jason A. Peiffer (Hendersonville, N.C.), Lien Diana Bertier (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Morgan Edward Mccaw (Aptos, Calif.), Xingang Wang (Aptos, Calif.) and Zachary Campbell Bower (Aptos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventions relate to a breeding system for the production of polyploid potato seeds, plants, or plant parts where cycles of meiosis, syngamy, and selection are used for interpopulation improvement of progenitor lines, and sexual polyploid...