US Patent Issued to Sakata Seed on Oct. 27 for "Inbred broccoli line BG-3" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,943, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sakata Seed Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Inbred broccoli line BG-3" was invented by Tsunehiro Yagoshi (Kakegawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment relates to seed and plants of inbred broccoli line BG-3. Another embodiment relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of inbred broccoli line BG-3, and to methods for producing a broccoli plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves, with another broccoli plant, such as a plant of another genotype, or with vegetatively propagating said plant. Another embodiment further relates to seeds and plants produced by such cross...