Patents by Inventor John M. Ferris

John M. Ferris 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).

  • Methods for conferring broad-based soybean cyst nematode resistance to a soybean line
    Patent number: 6096944
    Abstract: Described are recombinant soybean plants and plant lines, and methods for producing the same, which have desired characteristics derived from one or more soybean lines and which are soybean cyst nematode-resistant, this resistance having been introgressed by marker-assisted selection. The soybean cyst nematode resistance is advantageously introgressed using inventive methods with minimal linkage drag and, as such, resulting plants do not exhibit undesirable characteristics heretofore associated with plants and plant lines having resistance to soybean cyst nematodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Richard A. Vierling, Jamal Faghihi, Virginia R. Ferris, John M. Ferris