US Plant Patent PP11194
NE86-61
Buffalograss plant named `NE86-61`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 22, 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
- PP11194
- Filed
- October 22, 1997
- Granted
- February 1, 2000
- Expires
- October 22, 2017
- Assignee
- UNIV NEBRASKA
- Inventor
- RIORDAN TERRANCE P; BAXENDALE FREDERICK P; HANSEN RUTH C; GAUSSOIN ROCH E; JOHNSON PAUL G; JOHNSON-CICALESE JENNIFER M
Abstract
A vegetatively reproduced buffalograss cultivar named NE86-61 is distinguished from other commercially produced buffalograss varieties by its excellent turfgrass color, cold tolerance, high density, dark green color, low growth habit, and rate of establishment. NE86-61 is also distinguished from other varieties by molecular markers and nuclear DNA content. NE86-61 is suitable for use in low to medium maintenance situations in arid and semi-arid climates of United States and Canada.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct perennial, female buffalograss cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by its dark green color, improved turfgrass quality, tolerance to low mowing, unique molecular marker pattern, hexaploid DNA content, vegetative propagation, and tolerance to heat, drought, cold, and low maintenance conditions.
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