US Plant Patent PP10079
Tift 94
`Tift 94` Bermudagrass
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 19, 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
- PP10079
- Filed
- April 19, 1996
- Granted
- October 21, 1997
- Expires
- April 19, 2016
- Assignee
- US ARMY
- Inventor
- HANNA WAYNE WILLIAM
Abstract
Tift 94 is a vigorous triploid (2n=3x=27 chromosomes) which has use on golf course fairways and tees, athletic fields, lawns, commercial landscape sites, and other turf areas where a fine-textured, low growing turf is desired. The grass produces less upright growth and has shorter and narrower leaves, and shorter internodes than Midiron from which it was developed and Tifway, two commercially available cultivars. It produces more shoots per node than Midiron. It has better color and turf quality than Midiron.
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 Bermudagrass plant, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by the fine textures of the leaf blade, short internodes, and improved color which produces a low growing turf with improved density and quality.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10079 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.