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US Plant Patent PP6966

Tara

Asparagus plant--`Tara`

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
PP6966
Filed
February 24, 1988
Granted
August 1, 1989
Expires
February 24, 2008

Abstract

A female Asparagus plant which when combined sexually with a male plant produces an F 1 all male hybrid and transmits rust and Fusarium resistance to its progeny when asexually propagated.

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 substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its ability to transmit rust (Puccinia asparagi) and Fusarium tolerance, when asexually propagated as well as produce an all male hybrid when combined sexually with a male hybrid.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6966 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.