US Patent Issued to Southwest University on Aug. 5 for "Breeding method and use of blue-grained two-line hybrid wheat system" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,536, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Southwest University (Chongqing, China).

"Breeding method and use of blue-grained two-line hybrid wheat system" was invented by Zhongan Li (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a breeding method and use of a blue-grained two-line hybrid wheat system. The present disclosure creates alien translocated chromosomes (T4AgL (Ba-containing fragment)-4BL (fragment near centromere).4thS and T4AgL (Ba-containing fragment)-4BL (fragment near centromere).4thS (Rf-containing fragment)) and alien translocated telosomes (T4AgL (Ba-containing fragment)-4thS (Rf-contain...