US Patent Issued to TAKII & Co. on March 17 for "Cytoplasmic male-sterile Rudbeckia plants and a method of production" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,579, issued on March 17, was assigned to TAKII & Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Cytoplasmic male-sterile Rudbeckia plants and a method of production" was invented by Tomoaki Haketa (Kyoto, Japan), Makoto Endo (Kyoto, Japan), Shun Koyama (Kyoto, Japan), Kenta Shirasawa (Chiba, Japan) and Sachiko Isobe (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a cytoplasmic male sterile Rudbeckia plant. The present disclosure also provides a method for conferring cytoplasmic male sterility to a Rudbeckia plan. The method may comprise introducing, as a cytoplasmic male sterility gene, at least one polynucleotide into a Rud...