High yielding tobacco with Oriental tobacco characteristics
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorsMarcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso, Greg Davis, Jerry W. Morris
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Abstract
This application provides high yielding tobacco plants with Oriental tobacco aroma and flavor characteristics and development of these plants via breeding. This application also provides hybrid seeds that give rise to high yielding tobacco plants with Oriental tobacco aroma and flavor characteristics. This application provides methods of growing and harvesting high yielding tobacco plants with Oriental tobacco aroma and flavor characteristics. This application further provides tobacco products made from high yielding tobacco plants with Oriental tobacco aroma and flavor characteristics, and methods making such tobacco products.
Claims22
A hybrid tobacco plant, or part thereof, having a flue-cured type parent plant and an oriental type parent plant, wherein said oriental type parent plant is selected from the group consisting of Basma, Katerini S53, and Izmir Ego 64, wherein a representative sample of seed of said oriental type parent Basma has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-120683, wherein a representative sample of seed of said oriental type parent Katerini S53 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-120685, and wherein a representative sample of seed of said oriental type parent Izmir Ego 64 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-120684, wherein said hybrid tobacco plant comprises a yield between 1400 and 3000 lbs/acre, and wherein said hybrid tobacco plant comprises one or more oriental compounds at a concentration between 50% and 150% of the concentration for the same one or more oriental compounds in said oriental type parent plant when grown in similar growth conditions, wherein said one or more oriental compounds are selected from the group consisting of 3-methylvaleric acid, valeric acid, isovaleric acid, a labdenoid, cembranoid, and a sugar ester.
A method of producing an F1 tobacco hybrid, said method comprising
- crossing a plant of a larger-leaf parent tobacco variety with a plant of an oriental parent tobacco variety, and
- selecting an F1 hybrid, wherein said F1 hybrid comprises a yield between 1400 and 3000 lbs/acre, and said F1 hybrid further comprises one or more aroma compounds at an average concentration between 50% and 150% of the average concentration of said one or more aroma compounds in said oriental parent tobacco variety when grown in similar growth conditions;
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- wherein said oriental type parent plant is selected from the group consisting of Basma, wherein a representative sample of seed of said oriental type parent Basma has been deposited as ATCC Accession No. PTA-120683;
- Katerini S53, wherein a representative sample of seed of said oriental type parent Katerini S53 has been deposited as ATCC Accession No. PTA-120685;
- and Izmir Ego 64, wherein a representative sample of seed of said oriental type parent Izmir Ego 64 has been deposited as ATCC Accession No. PTA-120684.
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