ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,751, issued on May 19, was assigned to RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V. (De Lier, Netherlands).
"TBRFV resistant tomato plant" was invented by Roel Hamelink (De Lier, Netherlands), Jonathan Kalisvaart (De Lier, Netherlands) and Hamed Rashidi (De Lier, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a Solanum lycopersicum plant that is resistant to TBRFV, which plant comprises a QTL on chromosome 11, and/or a QTL on chromosome 12, and/or a QTL on chromosome 6. The presence of the QTL on chromosome 11 can be identified by use of at least one of the markers selected from the group comprising SEQ ID NOS: 1, 9, a...