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US Plant Patent PP14395

Royal

Royal zoysiagrass

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 11, 2022. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14395, the photograph of Royal printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14395, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP14395
Filed
July 11, 2002
Granted
December 23, 2003
Expires
July 11, 2022
Assignee
TEXAS A & M UNIV SYS
Inventor
ENGELKE MILTON CHARLES; REINERT JAMES ARNOLD

Abstract

An asexually reproduced cultivar of perennial zoysiagrass that possess a unique combination of characteristics including purple anthers and white stigmas, an absence of leaf blade hairs, high turf quality and density, good shade tolerance, salinity tolerance, resistance to Rhizoctonia blight and zoysiagrass mite, moderate resistance to tropical sod webworm and hunting billbug, susceptibility to fall army worm and tawny mole cricket and a distinct DNA fingerprint.

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 cultivar of an asexually reproduced Zoysia matrella plant, as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14395 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.