US Plant Patent PP6969
Jersey Titan
Asparagus plant--`Jersey Titan`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 24, 2008. 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
- PP6969
- Filed
- February 24, 1988
- Granted
- August 1, 1989
- Expires
- February 24, 2008
Abstract
An Asparagus plant having tolerance to rust (Puccinia asparagi), root rot (Fusarium oxysporum), and crown rot (F. monilioforme), with good vigor and very high branching aspect producing high quality and quantity of marketable yield spears in hot weather, having tips which remain closed when others tend to open prematurely, and having a high rust rating.
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, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination as an all male hybrid of production of high yield of marketable spears with tight spear tips in hot weather which remain closed longer than most cultivars, tolerance to rust (Puccinia asparagi), root rot (Fusarium oxysporum), and crown rot (F. moniliforme) of good vigor, and very high branching.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6969 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.