US Plant Patent PP6841
CT-2
Cynodon dactylon grass plant CT-2
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 30, 2007. 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
- PP6841
- Filed
- November 30, 1987
- Granted
- June 6, 1989
- Expires
- November 30, 2007
Abstract
I disclose that my herein invention of a new and distinct variety of Cynodon Dactylon grass plant, that was discovered by me through a series of cross-pollination of selected varieties of Cynodon Dactylon grass plants, then through asexually repropagation selected the new and distinct variety of Cynodon Dactylon grass plant CT-2. This new variety produces an excellent turfgrass surface of a very dark green color, with less thatch build-up. The entire plant is pubescent and the electrophoresis isoenzyme banding patterns show distinct uniqueness of this new variety CT-2.
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Having now described the new and distinct variety of Cynodon Dactylon grass plant, which I have developed, discovered and asexually reproduced, I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Cynodon Dactylon grass plant herein described and illustrated, a new variety that I developed, discovered and asexually repropagated; this new variety of Cynodon Dactylon grass plant having a very dark green leaf blade color, with newly formed anthers before dehiscence of light yellow green color, with stolon and culm internodal spaces farther apart, than the closest known variety of Cynodon Dactylon grass plant C84-135; this new claimed variety CT-2 being entirely pubescent and producing a significant lack of thatch build-up, when compared to the closest known variety C84-135; this new claimed variety of Cynodon Dactylon grass plant CT-2, showing distinct uniqueness with the electrophoresis isoenzyme banding patterns herein shown, when compared to the closest known variety of Cynodon Dactylon grass plant C84-135.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6841 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.