ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,537, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V. (De Lier, Netherlands).
"TBRFV resistant tomato plant" was invented by Roel Hamelink (De Lier, Netherlands), Jonathan Kalisvaart (De Lier, Netherlands) and Hamed Rashidi (De Lier, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a Solanum lycopersicum plant that is resistant to TBRFV, which plant comprises a QTL on chromosome 11 between SEQ ID NO: 1 and 53. The presence of the QTL on chromosome 11 is identified by use of at least one of the markers selected from the group comprising SEQ ID NOS: 4 to 52. The QTL is as comprised in the geno...