US Plant Patent PP10187
Miyako
`Miyako` zoysiagrass
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 14, 2016. 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
- PP10187
- Filed
- March 14, 1996
- Granted
- January 6, 1998
- Expires
- March 14, 2016
- Inventor
- YANESHITA MAKOTO; NAGASAWA RENRI
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of an asexually reproduced zoysiagrass, Zoysia japonica, with a unique combination of characters including fall color retention, tolerance to Rhizoctonia large patch, having aggressive spread by stolons with long internodes and a distinct DNA fingerprint.
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 cultivar of an asexually reproduced zoysiagrass, Zoysia japonica plant, as described and illustrated herein, having a unique combination of characters including fall color retention, tolerance to Rhizoctonia large patch, having aggressive spread by stolons with long internodes, and a distinct DNA fingerprint.
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