Kitaro — plant patent PP13732

Kitaro

Apple tree ‘Kitaro’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 18, 2019. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 5 of US plant patent PP13732, the photograph of Kitaro printed in the patent.

Figure 5 from US Plant Patent PP13732, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number

PP13732

Filed

March 18, 1999

Granted

April 22, 2003

Expires

March 18, 2019

Assignee

NAT AGRICULTURAL RES ORG

Inventor

YOSHIDA YOSHIO; TSUCHIYA SHICHIRO; SOEJIMA JUNICHI; HANIUDA TADAYUKI; SANADA TETSURO; KASHIMURA YOSHIKI; MASUDA TETSUO; BESSHO HIDEO; KOMORI SADAO; ITO YUJI; ABE KAZUYUKI; KOTODA NOBUHIRO

Abstract

Disclosed is an apple tree having a medium vigor, rounded and crenated leaves, exhibiting excellent resistance to Alternaria blotch and bearing a medium size fruit maturing mid-season and having high productivity with an slightly heavy preharvest fruit drop. The fruit has an oblate shape, has yellow colored skin and has excellent storage quality. The flesh of the fruit is yellowish white, juicy and firm, and further, has a strong sweetness and medium sourness, thereby providing a good sweet-sour balance and rich taste, and has an excellent eating quality.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Apple plant, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13732 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.