US Patent Issued to SAKATA SEED on April 29 for "Cytoplasmic male sterile Brassica rapa plant having improved growth ability" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,958, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAKATA SEED Corp. (Japan).

"Cytoplasmic male sterile Brassica rapa plant having improved growth ability" was invented by Shingo Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takao Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Izumida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuhiro Nishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cytoplasmic male sterile Brassica rapa plant is provided having a growth ability equivalent to that of a Brassica rapa plant having a normal cytoplasm or a progeny of the cytoplasmic male sterile Brassica rapa plant. For example, it is possible to improve the deterioration of growth ability which has been...