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US Plant Patent PP14130

Zorro zoysiagrass

Zorro 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 PP14130, the photograph of Zorro zoysiagrass printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14130, 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
PP14130
Filed
July 11, 2002
Granted
September 2, 2003
Expires
July 11, 2022
Assignee
TEXAS A & M UNIV SYS
Inventor
ENGELKE MILTON CHARLES; REINERT JAMES ARNOLD

Abstract

The present invention is directed to an asexually reproduced variety of perennial Zoysia matrella. The inventive variety demonstrates a unique combination of characteristics including white stigmas, purple-brown anthers, good shade tolerance and turf quality, and resistance to hunting billbug, fall armyworm, yellow patch disease, Rhizoctonia blight and zoysiagrass rust disease.

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 PP14130 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.