ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,320, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).
"Downy mildew resistant lettuce plants" was invented by Bart Willem Brugmans (Beek en Donk, Netherlands), Gerard N. Koorevaar (Ede, Netherlands), Hieronymus J.M. van der Laan (Wageningen, Netherlands) and Rosa I. Weber (Wageningen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides lettuce plants exhibiting resistance to downy mildew. Such plants may comprise novel introgressed genomic regions associated with disease resistance from L. virosa. In certain aspects, compositions, including novel polymorphic markers and methods for p...