US Patent Issued to Seminis Vegetable Seeds on Sept. 30 for "Brassica oleracea plants with downy mildew resistant curds or heads" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,558, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).

"Brassica oleracea plants with downy mildew resistant curds or heads" was invented by Meinardus Boon (Scharwoude, Netherlands), Franciscus van den Bosch (Kesteren, Netherlands), Benjamin C. Hunter (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands) and Gerard N. Koorevaar (Ede, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides Brassica oleracea plants having curds or heads exhibiting increased resistance to downy mildew. Such plants may comprise novel introgressed genomic regions associated with disease resistance from Brassica oleracea MYCOCLP. In c...