Patents Examined by Che Suyden Chereskin
  • Process for breeding a glabrous variety of rice crop and a glabrous plant
    Patent number: 5173423
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for breeding a glabrous variety of rice crop, this process comprising the steps of culturing tissues from a target rice plant, culturing the calli formed to a regeneration medium, growing the regenerates and selecting glabrous plants therefrom them, a new and distinct variety of a glabrous variety of a rice plant obtained by this process, and a process for the production of a glabrous plant which comprises further reproducing the plants. This glabrous variety is useful for rice cultivation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
    Inventors: Akira Nishikawa, Toshiya Yamamoto, Seiichi Tuji, Hirochika Sakano, Hideo Hirohara