US Plant Patent PP11163
TifEagle
Bermudagrass named `TifEagle`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 24, 2017. 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
- PP11163
- Filed
- July 24, 1997
- Granted
- December 21, 1999
- Expires
- July 24, 2017
- Assignee
- US AGRICULTURE
- Inventor
- HANNA WAYNE W
Abstract
`TifEagle` is a dense fine-textured triploid (2n=3x=27 chromosomes) bermudagrass which has use on golf greens and other areas requiring mowing heights at 6 mm or less. The grass produces more shoots per unit area that are shorter with narrower and shorter leaves than `Tifdwarf`, the previous cultivar of choice for high quality putting greens mowed at 6 mm or less on golf courses where burmudagrass is preferred. `TifEagle` consistently produced better quality turf and color than `Tifdwarf` at mowing heights less than 6 mm. It shows more resistance than `Tifdwarf` to the tawny mole cricket after one year of establishment.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of bermudagrass plant, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by shorter shoot and leaf length, narrower leaves, more shoots per unit area, production of high quality turf when mowed at less than 6 mm height, improved tawny mole cricket resistance after the year of establishment and a distinct DNA pattern(s) measured by the fluorescent-labeled AFLP method.
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