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US 12,391,953 B2Granted
Stevia plant having less ability to form pollens
AssigneeSuntory Holdings Limited
InventorsTadayoshi Hirai, Kazunari Iwaki, Kentaro Ochiai
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Abstract
The present invention provides a Stevia plant having a low ability to form pollens as compared with the wild type Stevia species. The present invention also provides a method of producing such a Stevia plant having a low ability to form pollens, and an extract or a steviol glycoside purified product obtainable from such a plant.
Claims12
A Stevia plant, wherein the plant is heterozygous or homozygous for an allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 79 of SEQ ID NO:
- 151 is C, is heterozygous or homozygous for an allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 65 of SEQ ID NO:
- 152 is T, and/or the plant is heterozygous or homozygous for an allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 24 of SEQ ID NO:
- 153 is T, wherein the Stevia plant produces less pollen than a Stevia plant that does not comprise one or more of the alleles.
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