# US 12,599,100 B2 · Pepper cultivar navelito

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- Number: US 12,599,100 B2
- Document ID: US12599100B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 18/472,698
- Filed: 2023-09-22
- Published: 2025-03-27
- Granted: 2026-04-14
- Earliest claimed: 2023-09-22
- Assignees: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
- Applicants: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
- Inventors: Matthieu Nicolas; Benny Nir
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12599100B2

## CPC

- A01H 6/822: {Capsicum sp. [pepper]}
- A01H 5/08: Fruits
- C12Q 1/6895: for plants, fungi or algae
- C12Q 2600/13: Plant traits
- C12Q 2600/156: Polymorphic or mutational markers
- A01H: NEW PLANTS OR {NON-TRANSGENIC} PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES
- C12Q: MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS (immunoassay G01N33/53); COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES

## Abstract

The present invention provides novel pepper plants and plant parts, seed, fruit, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a pepper plant by crossing the pepper plants of the invention with themselves or another pepper plant. The invention also provides plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, fruit, and tissue culture therefrom.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A seed that produces pepper cultivar Navelito, a representative sample of seed having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202403002.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A plant of pepper cultivar Navelito grown from the seed of claim 1.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

A pepper plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the pepper plant of claim 2.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

A seed that produces the plant of claim 3.

### Claim 5 (depends on 2)

A plant part of the pepper plant of claim 2.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The plant part of claim 5, wherein the plant part is a fruit, a scion, a rootstock, a shoot, an anther, an ovule, a root, a leaf, or a cell.

### Claim 7 (depends on 2)

A tissue culture of regenerable cells of the plant of claim 2.

### Claim 8 (depends on 2)

A pepper plant regenerated from a tissue culture of regenerable cells of the plant of claim 2, wherein the regenerated pepper plant comprises all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of claim 2.

### Claim 9 (depends on 2)

A method of producing pepper seed, the method comprising crossing the plant of claim 2 as female with a second pepper plant as male and harvesting the resulting seed.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The method of claim 9, wherein the crossing is done by hand pollination.

### Claim 11 (depends on 2)

A method of developing a pepper line in a pepper plant breeding program using plant breeding techniques, which include employing a pepper plant, or its parts, as a source of plant breeding material, the method comprising:
(a) obtaining the pepper plant, or parts thereof, of claim 2 as a source of breeding material; and
(b) applying plant breeding techniques.

### Claim 12 (depends on 2)

A method for producing a seed of a pepper plant derived from the plant of claim 2, the method comprising:
(a) crossing a pepper plant of pepper cultivar Navelito as female with a second pepper plant as male;
(b) allowing seed to form;
(c) growing a plant from the seed of step (b) to produce a plant derived from pepper cultivar Navelito;
(d) selfing the plant of step (c) or crossing it to a second pepper plant to form additional pepper seed derived from pepper cultivar Navelito; and
(e) optionally repeating steps (c) and (d) one or more times to generate further derived pepper seed from pepper cultivar Navelito, wherein in step (c) a plant is grown from the additional pepper seed of step (d) in place of growing a plant from the seed of step (b).

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The method of claim 12, wherein the crossing in step (a) is done by hand pollination.

### Claim 14 (depends on 2)

A method of producing a seedless pepper fruit, the method comprising:
(a) growing the plant of claim 2 to produce a pepper fruit; and
(b) harvesting the pepper fruit from the plant.

### Claim 15 (depends on 2)

A method of vegetatively propagating the plant of claim 2, the method comprising:
(a) collecting tissue capable of being propagated from a plant of pepper cultivar Navelito;
(b) cultivating the tissue to obtain proliferated shoots; and
(c) rooting the proliferated shoots to obtain rooted plantlets.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The method of claim 15, further comprising growing plants from the rooted plantlets.

### Claim 17 (depends on 16)

A plant obtained by the method of claim 16, wherein the plant comprises all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of pepper cultivar Navelito.

### Claim 18 (depends on 2)

A method of producing a plant of pepper cultivar Navelito comprising a desired added trait, the method comprising introducing a transgene conferring the desired trait into the plant of claim 2.

### Claim 19 (depends on 18)

A pepper plant produced by the method of claim 18, wherein the pepper plant is a transformed pepper plant comprising the desired added trait and otherwise all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of pepper cultivar Navelito.

### Claim 20 (depends on 19)

A seed that produces the plant of claim 19, wherein the seed produces a transformed plant of pepper cultivar Navelito that has the desired added trait.

### Claim 21 (depends on 2)

A method of determining a genotype of pepper cultivar Navelito, the method comprising:
(a) obtaining a sample of nucleic acids from the plant of claim 2; and
(b) detecting a polymorphism in the nucleic acid sample using molecular biology techniques.