Broccoli type having curds with detached florets
AssigneeSeminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
InventorsFranciscus van den Bosch, Meinardus Petrus Boon
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Abstract
The present invention includes broccoli plants with curds having detached florets and methods for obtaining such broccoli plants. The present invention also provides reagents that can be used in methods for obtaining such broccoli plants.
Claims19
A container of broccoli seeds wherein broccoli plants grown from greater than 50% of said seeds produce main curds having detached florets, said detached florets having an average secondary stem length of at least 7 centimeters and at least 50% of said detached florets on said main curd do not touch another floret on said main curd and said detached floret trait is obtainable from a broccoli line selected from the group consisting of 550478, a representative sample of seed of said line having been deposited with the NCIMB under NCIMB Accession No. 41416;
- 550479, a representative sample of seed of said line having been deposited with the NCIMB under NCIMB Accession No. 41415;
- 550385, a representative sample of seed of said line having been deposited with the NCIMB under NCIMB Accession No. 41417;
- and 550198, a representative sample of seed of said line having been deposited with the NCIMB under NCIMB Accession No. 41418.
A seed of broccoli line selected from the group consisting of broccoli line 550478, a sample of said seed having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 41416, broccoli line 550479, a sample of said seed having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 41415, broccoli line 550385, a sample of said seed having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 41417, broccoli line 550198, a sample of said seed having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 41418.
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