# US 11,297,788 B2 · Echinacea cultivar ‘Balsompocel’

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- Number: US 11,297,788 B2
- Document ID: US11297788B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/934,772
- Filed: 2020-07-21
- Published: 2021-01-07
- Granted: 2022-04-12
- Earliest claimed: 2020-07-21
- Assignees: Ball Horticultural Company
- Applicants: Ball Horticultural Company
- Inventors: Jianping Ren; Robert B. Eisenreich
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11297788B2

## CPC

- A01H 6/1448: {Echinacea}
- A01H 5/02: Flowers
- A01H 6/14: Asteraceae or Compositae, e.g. safflower, sunflower, artichoke or lettuce
- A01H: NEW PLANTS OR {NON-TRANSGENIC} PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES

## Abstract

The invention provides plants of the Echinacea cultivar designated ‘Balsompocel’. The invention thus relates to the plants, cells, plant parts, and tissue cultures of the cultivar ‘Balsompocel’, and to methods for producing an Echinacea plant produced by crossing an Echinacea plant of cultivar ‘Balsompocel’ with another Echinacea plant, such as a plant of another cultivar. The invention further relates to Echinacea seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of cultivar ‘Balsompocel’ with plants of another cultivar. The invention further relates to the genetic complements and hybrid genetic complements of plants of cultivar ‘Balsompocel’.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An Echinacea plant of cultivar ‘Balsompocel’, a representative sample of plant tissue of said cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202001001.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A seed of the plant of claim 1.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

A plant part of the plant of claim 1, wherein said plant part comprises at least one cell of said plant.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The plant part of claim 3, defined as a stem, leaf, axillary bud, disc floret, ray floret, pollen, or ovule.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

An Echinacea plant having all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of claim 1.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

A tissue culture of regenerable cells of the plant of claim 1.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

An Echinacea plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 6.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

A method of vegetatively propagating an Echinacea plant comprising the steps of:
(a) collecting tissue capable of being propagated from the plant of claim 1; and
(b) propagating a plant from said tissue.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

An Echinacea plant produced by the method of claim 8.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

A method of producing an Echinacea plant comprising an added trait, the method comprising introducing a transgene conferring the trait into the plant of claim 1.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

An Echinacea plant produced by the method of claim 10.

### Claim 12

An Echinacea plant of cultivar ‘Balsompocel’, a representative sample of plant tissue of said cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202001001, further comprising a transgene.

### Claim 13

An Echinacea plant of cultivar ‘Balsompocel’, a representative sample of plant tissue of said cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202001001, further comprising a single locus conversion, wherein said single locus conversion is introduced into the cultivar ‘Balsompocel’ by genetic engineering, spontaneous mutation, or induced mutation, and wherein said plant comprises the single locus conversion and otherwise comprises all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of Echinacea cultivar ‘Balsompocel’.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The plant of claim 13, wherein said single locus conversion comprises a non-transgenic mutation.

### Claim 15 (depends on 14)

The plant of claim 14, wherein the non-transgenic mutation confers a ray floret color selected from the group consisting of yellow, yellow-orange, orange, coral, salmon, pink, rose, red, red-orange, scarlet, red-purple, purple, burgundy, and blue-violet.

### Claim 16 (depends on 1)

A method of plant breeding comprising applying a plant breeding technique to the plant according to claim 1.

### Claim 17 (depends on 16)

The method of claim 16, defined as comprising producing an Echinacea cultivar ‘Balsompocel’-derived Echinacea plant.

### Claim 18 (depends on 16)

The method of claim 16, wherein said plant breeding technique comprises recurrent selection, mass selection, hybridization, open-pollination, backcrossing, modified backcrossing, pedigree breeding, mutation breeding, or marker assisted selection.

### Claim 19 (depends on 17)

The method of claim 17, further defined as comprising selecting an Echinacea cultivar ‘Balsompocel’-derived Echinacea plant that comprises a non-fading flower color trait found in said Echinacea cultivar ‘Balsompocel’.

### Claim 20 (depends on 17)

A first generation Echinacea cultivar ‘Balsompocel’-derived Echinacea plant produced by the method of claim 17, wherein said plant comprises the non-fading flower color trait and has a ray floret color selected from the group consisting of yellow, yellow-orange, orange, coral, salmon, pink, rose, red, red-orange, scarlet, red-purple, purple, burgundy, and blue-violet.

### Claim 21 (depends on 17)

A first generation Echinacea cultivar ‘Balsompocel’-derived Echinacea plant produced by the method of claim 17, wherein said plant comprises the non-fading flower color trait and has at least one semi-double or double flower type inflorescence.

### Claim 22 (depends on 1)

A method of obtaining an Echinacea plant with a non-fading flower color trait comprising producing a progeny plant of a plant according to claim 1.

### Claim 23 (depends on 22)

The method of claim 22, further defined as comprising:
(a) crossing the plant of cultivar ‘Balsompocel’ with a plant of a second Echinacea cultivar to produce a progeny plant;
(b) selecting a progeny plant that comprises a non-fading flower color trait comprised in the plant of cultivar ‘Balsompocel’;
(c) backcrossing the selected progeny plant with a plant of the same cultivar as said second Echinacea cultivar; and
(d) repeating steps (b) and (c) one or more times to produce a further selected progeny that comprises the non-fading flower color trait.

### Claim 24 (depends on 1)

A method of producing a cultivar Balsompocel’-derived Echinacea plant, the method comprising crossing the plant of cultivar ‘Balsompocel’ according to claim 1 with a second Echinacea plant.

### Claim 25 (depends on 24)

A plant produced by the method of claim 24, wherein said plant is a first generation cultivar ‘Balsompocel’-derived Echinacea plant, and wherein said plant comprises a non-fading flower color trait comprised in the plant of cultivar ‘Balsompocel’.

### Claim 26 (depends on 1)

A method for producing an Echinacea plant comprising a non-fading color trait, said method comprising vegetatively propagating an Echinacea plant comprising the non-fading color trait, wherein said plant is the product of applying a plant breeding technique to the plant of claim 1.