Patents by Inventor GERARDUS VAN VLIET

GERARDUS VAN VLIET 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).

  • Publication number: 20020010953
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method for obtaining a seedless tomato, a tomato plant carrying said seedless tomatoes or capable of carrying said seedless tomatoes, or cultivation material such as seed for such a tomato plant, comprising: (a) providing a first tomato plant, that is homozygote recessive with regard to the properties parthenocarpy (pk,pk) and functional sterility (fs,fs); (b) providing a second tomato plant, that is homozygote recessive with regard to the properties parthenocarpy (pk,pk) and functional sterility (fs,fs); (c) crossing the first and second tomato plant for the production of cultivation material, such as seed, which is homozygote recessive with regard to the properties parthenocarpy (pk,pk) and functional sterility (fs,fs); (d) optionally, the cultivation of the cultivation material thus obtained into a tomato plant capable of carrying the seedless tomatoes; (e) optionally, cultivating said tomato plant until it carries the seedless tomatoes, and harvesting the seedless toma
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventor: GERARDUS VAN VLIET