US Patent Issued to RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL on Oct. 20 for "QTLS for MCLCV resistance in C. melo" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,485, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V. (De Lier, Netherlands).

"QTLS for MCLCV resistance in C. melo" was invented by Lena Johanna Huijbregts-Doorduin (De Lier, Netherlands), Ram Kumar Basnet (De Lier, Netherlands), Jasper Pieter Van Wijk (De Lier, Netherlands), Zeger Otto Van Herwijnen (De Lier, Netherlands) and Paul De Graag (De Lier, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a Cucumis melo plant that is resistant to MCLCV, which plant comprises a QTL on chromosome 11, and/or a QTL on chromosome 2, and/or a QTL on chromosome 6. The QTL is as comprised in the genome ...