US Patent Issued to VILMORIN on June 2 for "Tomato plants resistant to ToBRFV, TMV, ToMV and ToMMV and corresponding resistance genes" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,203, issued on June 2, was assigned to VILMORIN & CIE (Paris).

"Tomato plants resistant to ToBRFV, TMV, ToMV and ToMMV and corresponding resistance genes" was invented by John Lindbo (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variants of the TM-2-2 protein, conferring recognition of the Movement Protein (MP) of the Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV), and wherein said variant comprises a tyrosine (Y), a phenylalanine (F) or a tryptophan (W) at the position corresponding to tyrosine 767 of the TM-2-2 protein and at least one of the following mutations: C848R, N822C, N822F, N822M, N822Y, N822W, N825H, N825K and N825T with resp...