# US 10,945,394 B2 · Lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,945,394 B2 - Document ID: US10945394B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/216,799 - Filed: 2018-12-11 - Published: 2019-04-18 - Granted: 2021-03-16 - Earliest claimed: 2018-05-25 - Assignees: Nunhems B.V. - Applicants: Nunhems B.V. - Inventors: Juan Francisco Muñoz Muñoz; Johan Van Zee - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10945394B2 ## CPC - A01H 6/1472: {Lactuca sativa [lettuce]} - A01H 5/12: Leaves - A01H: NEW PLANTS OR {NON-TRANSGENIC} PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES ## Abstract The disclosure provides a new and distinct variety of lettuce, NUN 6040 LT, as well as seeds and plants and heads or leaves thereof. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A plant, a plant part or a seed of lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT, wherein a representative sample of seed of said lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT is deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 43685. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The plant part of claim 1, wherein said plant part is a leaf, a head, pollen, a stem, an ovule, a fruit, a cutting, a flower, or a cell. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) A seed grown on the plant of claim 1. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) A lettuce plant, or a part thereof, having all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of claim 1 when grown under the same environmental conditions. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) A tissue or cell culture comprising regenerable cells of the plant of claim 1. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The tissue or cell culture according to claim 5, comprising cells or protoplasts derived from a plant part, wherein the plant part is an embryo, meristem, a cotyledon, a hypocotyl, pollen, a leaf, an anther, a root, a root tip, a pistil, a petiole, a flower, a fruit, a seed, a stem, or a stalk. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) A lettuce plant regenerated from the tissue or cell culture of claim 5, wherein the plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of NUN 6040 LT, when grown under the same environmental conditions, and wherein a representative sample of seed of lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT is deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 43685. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) A method of producing the plant of claim 1 or a part thereof, said method comprising vegetative propagation of the plant of variety NUN 6040 LT, wherein a representative sample of seed of said lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT is deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 43685. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein said vegetative propagation comprises regenerating a whole plant from a part of the plant of variety NUN 6040 LT, wherein a representative sample of seed of said lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT is deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 43685. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The method of claim 9, wherein said part is a cutting, a cell culture, or a tissue culture. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) A plant vegetatively propagated from the plant of claim 1, or a part thereof, wherein the vegetative propagated plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of variety NUN 6040 LT, when grown under the same environmental conditions, and wherein a representative sample of seed of lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT is deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 43685. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) A method of producing a lettuce plant, said method comprising crossing the plant of claim 1 with a second lettuce plant at least once, selecting progeny from said crossing, and optionally allowing the progeny to form seed. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) A first-generation progeny plant of the plant of claim 1, said first-generation progeny plant obtained by crossing the plant of lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT with itself or with another lettuce plant. ### Claim 14 A lettuce plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of variety NUN 6040 LT, when grown under the same environmental conditions, and wherein a representative sample of seed of said lettuce variety is deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 43685, further comprising a transgene. ### Claim 15 A plant of lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT, further comprising a single locus conversion, wherein said plant has otherwise all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of the plant of variety NUN 6040 LT, when grown under the same environmental conditions, and wherein a representative sample of seed of said lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT is deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 43685, and wherein the single locus conversion confers male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, pest resistance, disease resistance, environmental stress tolerance, modified carbohydrate metabolism, or modified protein metabolism. ### Claim 16 A method of making doubled haploid cells of lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT, said method comprising making double haploid cells from haploid cells from the plant or seed of lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT, wherein a representative sample of seed of lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT is deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 43685. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) A container comprising a plant, a plant part or a seed of claim 1. ### Claim 18 (depends on 2) A food or feed product or a processed product comprising the plant part of claim 2, wherein said food or feed product or processed product comprises at least a cell of lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT. ### Claim 19 A method of producing a modified lettuce plant, wherein the method comprises mutating a lettuce plant or plant part of lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT, wherein a representative sample of seed of lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT is deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 43685. ### Claim 20 A lettuce plant comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of the plant of variety NUN 6040 LT, wherein a representative sample of seed of lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 43685. ### Claim 21 (depends on 3) A lettuce plant grown from the seed of claim 3.