Seedless watermelon having small fruit
AssigneeSeminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
InventorsRobert Barham, Warren Barham, Fred T. McCuistion, Benito Juarez
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Abstract
The present invention is a novel method which results in the production of small seedless watermelon fruit having an average fruit weight of less than 12.0 pounds. The novel method involves using small tetraploid parental lines to produce small triploid hybrid seed.
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A method of producing seedless triploid watermelon fruit comprising:
- a) planting triploid plants and diploid plants in one or more rows;
- b) allowing said plants to mature and develop fruit;
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- c) harvesting said fruit;
- wherein said fruit has an average fruit weight of less than 12.0 pounds.
A tetraploid line designated ‘1671’, a sample of said seed having been deposited under ATCC Accession No.______.
A tissue culture of regenerable cells of a watermelon plant of line ‘1671’, wherein the tissue regenerates plants capable of expressing essentially all the morphological and physiological characteristics of the line ‘1671’.
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