Patents by Inventor Petrus Lambertus J. Egelmeers

Petrus Lambertus J. Egelmeers 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).

  • Plants with reduced susceptibility to pathogenic oomycetes
    Patent number: 8008548
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a for obtaining a plant showing a reduced susceptibility towards infection with a pathogen, in particular an oomycete, comprising treating MO seeds of a plant species to be modified with a mutagenic agent to obtain M1 seeds and growing plants therefrom the thus obtained M1 seeds to obtain M1 plants, inoculation of the thus obtained M1+n plants with the pathogen and selecting plants that show a reduction or absence of sporulation of the pathogen as plants having a reduced susceptibility phenotype. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, pollen, cells and tissues that have the reduced susceptibility towards oomycetes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt en Zaadhandel
    Inventors: Jacobus Petrus Cornelis De Wit, Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Johannes Wilhelmus Schut, Petrus Lambertus J. Egelmeers, Robert Helene Ghislain Dirks