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US 10,499,578 B2Granted
Seedless pepper plants
AssigneeSeminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
InventorsBenoit Gorguet, Carl M. Jones, Dirk Vreugdenhil, Rebeca N. Benitez
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AssigneeSeminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
InventorsBenoit Gorguet, Carl M. Jones, Dirk Vreugdenhil, Rebeca N. Benitez
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The present invention provides methods and composition for preparing seeds that when cultivated produce pepper plants with seedless fruits. These plants may further be male sterile and contain a stable non-Peterson Cytoplasmic Male Sterility (“CMS”). The invention also provides essentially pure populations of seed that, when grown, produce pepper plants with seedless fruit. Methods are provided comprising crossing a stable non-Peterson CMS plant as a female parent with pepper lines displaying a parthenocarpy trait. The invention also includes the seeds produced by such a method. Methods for breeding and using seedless pepper plants for enhancing the production of fruit under suboptimal temperature conditions are also provided.
A method for producing seed for growing a parthenocarpic seedless pepper plant comprising crossing as a female parent a first pepper plant comprising a cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) trait with a second plant which is parthenocarpic to produce at least a first seed of a parthenocarpic seedless pepper plant, wherein the CMS trait is not a Peterson CMS trait, and wherein the CMS trait is derived from a Capsicum baccatum plant.
A seedless pepper fruit, wherein the fruit is produced by a parthenocarpic seedless pepper plant grown from a seed prepared by crossing as a female parent a first pepper plant comprising a cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) trait with a second plant which is parthenocarpic to produce at least said seed of a first seed of a parthenocarpic seedless pepper plant.
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