US Plant Patent PP13279
Saksham
Mint plant named ‘Saksham’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 27, 2020. 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
- PP13279
- Filed
- November 27, 2000
- Granted
- November 26, 2002
- Expires
- November 27, 2020
- Assignee
- COUNCIL SCIENT IND RES
- Inventor
- KHANUJA SUMAN PREET SINGH; KUMAR SUSHIL; SHASANY AJIT KUMAR; DHAWAN SUNITA; DAROKAR MAHENDRA PANDURANG; NAQVI ALI ARIF; DHAWAN OM PARKASH; SINGH ANIL KUMAR; PATRA NIRMAL KUMAR; BAHL JANAK RAJ; BANSAL RAM PRAKASH
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct mint plant of Mentha arvensis "Saksham', developed through tissue culture, possessing the following combination of characters namely producing higher amount of menthol with high essential oil yield as well as herbage yield; possessing better growth and vegetative growth with high regenerability; has distinct molecular profile by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD); retains the characteristics of tolerance to leaf spot, rust and powdery mildew as in the parent variety "Himalaya'; has light greenish leaves, pinkish white flowers like the parent plant "Himalaya', this new plant is able to produce higher herbage, oil and menthol yield per unit area as compared to other existing improved varieties.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Mentha arvensis plant named ‘Saksham’ substantially as herein illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13279 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.