ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,217, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V. (De Lier, Netherlands).
"Celery morphology" was invented by Jurjen Johannes Berg (De Lier, Netherlands) and Reinier Hendrik Marie Deneer (De Lier, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a celery plant (Apium graveolens L. dulce) carrying a genetic determinant that leads to short leaf blades and/or a more uniform distribution of stem lengths as compared to celery plants not carrying the genetic determinant, wherein said determinant is obtainable by introgression from a plant grown from seed of which a representative sample was de...