Patents Assigned to C.T.C. Centre Technique du Champignon et Institut
  • Hybrid strains of Agaricus bisporus, germination of the spores of which provides mainly homokaryons, production and use thereof
    Patent number: 6521817
    Abstract: “Novel hybrid strains of Agaricus bisporus, the germination of the spores of which provides mostly homocaryons, their production and their use”. Hybrid strain of Agaricus having the following traits: it is interfertile with Agaricus bisporus, its fructifications have basidia of which less than 15% are bisporous, and most of the spores on said fructifications are homocaryotic, and whose traits can be genetically transmitted; method of obtaining such a strain, and its use for obtaining modified strains of Agaricus bisporus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignees: C.T.C. Centre Technique du Champignon et Institut, National de la Recherche Agronomique
    Inventors: Philippe Callac, Micheline Imbernon, Christophe Billette