US Plant Patent PP11330
Ben Tirran
Black currant plant named `Ben Tirran`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 22, 2018. 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
- PP11330
- Filed
- June 22, 1998
- Granted
- April 4, 2000
- Expires
- June 22, 2018
- Assignee
- SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INST
- Inventor
- ANDERSON MALCOLM M
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of black currant (i.e., Ribes nigrum L.) is provided. The cultivar forms attractive very large deep black glossy berries in good yields that are well amenable to mechanical harvesting. A vigorous and compact growth habit commonly is exhibited. The new cultivar flowers very late and the berries also mature late in the season. Good resistance to American gooseberry mildew is exhibited. The new cultivar is well suited for consumption when freshly picked or can be canned to form jams, preserves, conserves, etc.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of black currant plant having the following combination of characteristics: (a) a later flowering propensity, (b) a vigorous and upright growth habit that is well amenable to mechanical fruit harvest, (c) the ability to bear large glossy deep black fully-ripened berries of good quality in high yields that mature late in the season and are particularly well suited for fresh consumption and canning, and (d) exhibits good resistance to American gooseberry mildew;
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