ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,728, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).
"Lettuce variety cassowary" was invented by Hallie Dodson-Swenson (Hollister, Calif.) and Melaku Degefu Mekonnen (Gilroy, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel lettuce cultivar Cassowary and plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce plants of the invention with themselves or another lettuce plant. The invention also provides lettuce plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, and tissue cu...