US Patent Issued to KWS SAAT on Dec. 30 for "Beets comprising a gene conferring resistance to Cercospora beticola" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,699, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA (Einbeck, Germany).

"Beets comprising a gene conferring resistance to Cercospora beticola" was invented by Otto Torjek (Einbeck, Germany), Dietrich Borchardt (Einbeck, Germany), Margaret Rekoske (Shakopee, Minn.), Wolfgang Mechelke (Einbeck, Germany), Britta Schulz (Einbeck, Germany) and Jens Christoph Lein (Gottingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A more efficient breeding against Cercospora leaf spot disease, or the development of new resistant lines, is enabled via the provision of the Cercospora resistance-mediating gene according to the invention; in particu...