ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,571, issued on April 22, was assigned to VILMORIN-MIKADO USA INC. (Salinas, Calif.).
"Lettuce named POULIDOR" was invented by Yaojin Peng (Salinas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lettuce designated POULIDOR is disclosed. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to the seeds of lettuce designated POULIDOR, to the plants and plant parts of lettuce designated POULIDOR, and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce designated POULIDOR with itself or another lettuce plant. The disclosure further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to...