US Plant Patent PP10231
BP1
Pear rootstock BP1
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 15, 2015. 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
- PP10231
- Filed
- May 15, 1995
- Granted
- February 10, 1998
- Expires
- May 15, 2015
- Assignee
- US AGRICULTURE
- Inventor
- DEWET A F
Abstract
A new variety of pear rootstock selected from a family of seedling pear trees germinated from seed collected from a wild pear tree. The subject variety produces hearty semi-dwarf pear trees having high yield. The rootstock is compatible with all major commercial pear varieties. The variety roots easily and reproduces readily by hardwood cuttings.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new variety of pear tree, referred to by the cultivar designation BP1, substantitally as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by its ability to serve as a rootstock for grafting of pear tree cultivar to produce semi-dwarf pear trees which have a very high yield efficiency, are hardly and are compatible with all major commercial pear varieties, also characterized by its early bearing habit and its ability to root easily and reproduce readily by negative means particularly by hardwood cuttings.
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