ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,514, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to VILMORIN & CIE (Paris).
"Tolerance to ToLCNDV in cucumber" was invented by Zahi Paz (Shikmim, Israel), Ohad Yogev (Shikmim, Israel) and Alicia Rodriguez Medina (Aguadulce, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Cucumis sativus var. sativus plant tolerant to Tomato Leaf Curl New Delhi Virus (ToLCNDV) includes in its genome the combination of a first quantitative trait locus (QTL) QTL1 on chromosome 1 and a second QTL, QTL2 on chromosome 2, at least one of QTL1 and QTL2 being homozygous, wherein said combination confers to the plant tolerance to ToLCNDV and said QTLs on chromosomes 1 and 2 are ...