US Plant Patent PP14400
Safal
Rose scented geranium pelargonium graveolenes plant ‘Safal’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 7, 2021. 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
- PP14400
- Filed
- March 7, 2001
- Granted
- December 23, 2003
- Expires
- March 7, 2021
- Assignee
- COUNCIL SCIENT IND RES
- Inventor
- KUMAR SUSHIL; GUPTA RITIKA; SASTRY KAKARAPARTHI PANDU; BANERJEE SUCHITRA; MALLAVARAPU GOPAL RAO; RAMESH SRINIVAS IYER; SHASANY AJIT KUMAR; DAROKAR MAHENDRA PANDURANG; KHANUJA SUMAN PREET SINGH
Abstract
The invention relates to a new, distinct and unique plant of rose scented geranium Pelargonium graveolens 'Safal' derived from a rare seed-set in cultivar 'Bipuli,' apparently the result of hybridization between largely sterile populations of the cultivar accessions 'Bipuli' and 'Hemanti', possessing the following combination of characteristics namely demonstrated vigour in the essential oil yield related traits in great measure and out yielded all the other accessions; the essential oil of the plant has 89% rhodinol content in which citronellol to geraniol ratio is approximately 1:1 and the contents of isomenthone, menthone, 10-epi-gamma-eudesmol, 6,9-guaiadiene, decanoic acid and isodecanoic acid were relatively lower than in the oils of accessions 'Bipuli' and/or 'Hemanti', this plant can be propagated vegetatively through stem cuttings and suitable for commercial cultivation in large scale.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct plant of Geranium plant named ‘Safal,’ illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14400 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.