Skip to content
The Patent Garden

US Plant Patent PP5550

Geeenwich

Asparagus plant-Greenwich-53×22-8

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 5, 2003. 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.

The record

Patent number
PP5550
Filed
October 5, 1983
Granted
September 3, 1985
Expires
October 5, 2003
Assignee
UNIV RUTGERS
Inventor
ELLISON J HOWARD; KINELSKI JOHN J

Abstract

A hybrid asparagus plant having dominant male characteristics providing volume production characterized by high yield ability as a commercial variety, at the same time being resistant to rust (Puccinia asparagi), having a good field tolerance to root rot (Fusarium oxysporum) as well as crown rot (F. moniliforme) with good adaptability for growth in different areas and under widely varying conditions.

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

We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Asparagus Plant as herein shown and described, distinguished particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of homo-genetic characteristics resulting in longer life, with substantially greater production under widely varying conditions of cultivation, having good resistance to rust (Puccinia asparagi), good field tolerance to root rot (Fusarium oxysporum) and also to crown rot (F. moniliforme).

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5550 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.