US Patent Issued to COVERCRESS on July 21 for "Pennycress variety B28" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,279, issued on July 21, was assigned to COVERCRESS INC. (St. Louis).

"Pennycress variety B28" was invented by Mark Messmer (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel pennycress variety designated B28 is provided. This disclosure thus relates to the seeds of pennycress variety B28, to the plants of pennycress variety B28, to plant parts of pennycress variety B28, to methods for producing a pennycress plant by crossing a plant of pennycress variety B28 with a plant of another pennycress variety, and to methods for producing a plant of pennycress variety B28 containing in its genetic material one or more gene edits, backcross con...