New fruit varieties and a means to enhance poultry immune systems developed by University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture scientists were among 10 patents recognized recently during the annual Agriculture Awards.
All of the patents arose from discoveries made by scientists within the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Cooperative Extension Service and some with the help of graduate students within the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.
“I’m always excited about what our innovative researchers are doing,” said Lisa Childs, assistant vice president for technology commercialization for the Division of Agriculture.
Childs is also a patent attorney.
“Once again this year, we have patents that reflect some of the broad range of commercially interesting research in the division,” she said. “We’ve had patents issue from horticulture, the rice research and extension center, entomology and plant pathology, poultry science, and crop soil and environmental science, and they all have in common the desire to make our world a better place to live in.”
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Recognized this year were:
Burkholderia Cenocepacia and Pseudomonas Fluorescens Compositions and Methods of Using the Same: Alejandro Rojas — department of entomology and plant pathology; and Ruben Morawicki — department of food science;
Table Grape Named A-1400 ‘Southern Sensation’: John Clark — department of horticulture;
Herbicide-Resistant Grain Sorghum: Jason Norsworthy and Muthukumar Bagavathiannan — department of crop, soil and environmental sciences;
Robust Water Trading and Irrigation Performance Meter Measurement System: Christopher Henry — Rice Research and Extension Center;
Pseudomonas Protegens and Products Thereof to Control Bacterial Panicle Blight of Rice: Alejandro Rojas — department of entomology and plant pathology;
Blackberry Plant Named ‘APF-404T’: John Clark — department of horticulture;
Blackberry Plant Named APF-409T: John Clark — department of horticulture;
Table Grape Named ‘Compassion’: John Clark — department of horticulture;
Novel Mucosal Adjuvants and Delivery Systems: Amanda Wolfenden-Bray, Billy Hargis, Guillermo Tellez-Isaias, Marion Morgan, Neil Pumford and Srichaitanya Shivaramaiah — department of poultry science;
Compositions and Methods of Enhancing Immune Responses to Eimeria or Limiting Eimeria: Billy Hargis, Lisa Bielke, Olivia Faulkner and Srichaitanya Shivaramaiah — department of poultry science.
Mary Hightower is with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.