US Patent Issued to RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL on March 31 for "Root-knot nematode resistance conferring gene" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,644, issued on March 31, was assigned to RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V. (De Lier, Netherlands).

"Root-knot nematode resistance conferring gene" was invented by Raoul Jacobus Johannes Maria Frijters (De Lier, Netherlands), Jonathan Kalisvaart (De Lier, Netherlands) and Adriaan Verhage (De Lier, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nucleic acid encoding an MeR1 protein, which confers resistance to root-knot nematode when present in a Solanaceae plant is provided. Said nucleic acid has a nucleotide sequence that may comprise a coding sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9, or a coding sequence having...