Patents by Inventor Abed Gera

Abed Gera has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of preventing virus increase in plants
    Patent number: 4520020
    Abstract: A method of isolating material which inhibits virus replication in plants comprising isolating protoplasts from a local lesion-responding tobacco plant having an N gene, preferably a Samsun NN tobacco plant, inoculating the protoplasts with Tobacco Mosaic Virus, and either removing the protoplasts after a predetermined amount of time and isolating the desired material from the protoplast incubation medium, or removing the virus after a predetermined amount of time and isolating the desired material from the preparation.Also provided is a method of isolating material which inhibits virus replication in plants comprising isolating tissue from a "green island" area of a tobacco plant which responds systemically to Cucumber Mosaic Virus, preferably a Samsun NN, a Xanthi-nc or Samsun plant, homogenizing the tissue and isolating the desired material from the homogenate, as well as a method of immunizing plants against virus replication comprising applying thereto the material isolated as above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: State of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture
    Inventors: Gad Loebenstein, Abed Gera