US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on June 23 for "Soybean variety 5PUEL09" (Iowa, North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,785, issued on June 23, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Soybean variety 5PUEL09" was invented by Andrea Beth Kalvig (Waukee, Iowa) and Nadia Nikolayevna Krasheninnik (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel soybean variety, designated 5PUEL09 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PUEL09, cells from soybean variety 5PUEL09, plants of soybean 5PUEL09, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PUEL09. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PUEL09 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant tra...