US Plant Patent PP25018
Eagle Point Devil Corn
Gamagrass cultivar named ‘Eagle Point Devil Corn’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends October 31, 2032.
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
- PP25018
- Filed
- October 31, 2012
- Granted
- October 28, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Assignee
- EUBANKS MARY WILKES
- Inventor
- EUBANKS MARY WILKES
Abstract
A new and distinct gamagrass, which is the product of a cross between gamagrass, Tripsacum dactyloides , and a Zea - Tripsacum recombinant. This plant is fertile, has proven to be cross compatible with Zea mays L. and Tripsacum sp., and offers an avenue to expand the gene pool for commercial corn varieties. The instant plant is perennial with well developed rhizomes, aerenchyma tissue in its roots, high carbohydrate and sugar content, abundant seed and prolific vegetation production, traits that give it improved value as a forage crop and biofuel feedstock.
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 gamagrass, substantially as herein shown and described that is characterized by its profuse production of fruit and plant biomass, its high carbohydrate and sugar content, its upright, perennial habit, roots with well-developed aerenchyma, its combining ability with corn that permits movement of new genetic diversity into corn using conventional plant breeding methods.
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