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Article: Patent No. 7,608,751 Issued on Oct. 27, Assigned to Kweek-En Researchbedruf Agrico for Fungus Resistant Plant (Dutch Inventors)
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- November 4, 2009
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 10 -- Josephus Jacoubs Henricus Maria Allefs and Marina Woutera Maria Muskens, both of Emmeloord, Netherlands, and Edwin Andries Gerard Van Der Vossen of Utrecht, Netherlands, have developed a fungus resistant plant. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,608,751 on Oct. 27.
The patent has been assigned to Kweek-En Researchbedruf Agrico B.V., Emmeloord.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel method for increasing the resistance, of a plant, in particular of a Solanaceae, preferably of potato and tomato, to plant pathogens of the phylum Oomyceta comprising increasing the activity of ...