US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA on June 24 for "Fruit-bearing plant exhibiting high temperature resistance, high yield, and parthenocarpy" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,445, issued on June 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (Tsukuba, Japan).

"Fruit-bearing plant exhibiting high temperature resistance, high yield, and parthenocarpy" was invented by Tohru Ariizumi (Tsukuba, Japan), Hiroshi Ezura (Tsukuba, Japan), Keiichiro Harada (Tsukuba, Japan), Yoshihito Shinozaki (Tsukuba, Japan), Ryoichi Yano (Tsukuba, Japan) and U Riku (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides: a fruit-bearing plant exhibiting parthenocarpy or a portion thereof including a mutation in a Solyc10g038170 gene or ortholog thereof, the mutation causing deficiency or reduction in expression...