High Oleic Imidazolinone Resistant Sunflower

A method of introducing a desired trait into sunflower cultivar OI1601A wherein the method comprises:

• (a) crossing an OI1601A plant, representative seed having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-______, with a plant of another sunflower cultivar that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny plants wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, and resistance to bacterial disease, fungal disease or viral disease;
• (b) selecting progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants;
• (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the OI1601A plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
• (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and physiological and morphological characteristics of sunflower cultivar OI1601A to produce selected backcross progeny plants;
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• (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) one or more times in succession to produce selected second or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of sunflower cultivar OI1601A as determined at the 5 percent significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions.

A method of introducing a desired trait into sunflower cultivar OI2653R wherein the method comprises:

• (a) crossing an OI2653R plant, representative seed having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-______, with a plant of another sunflower cultivar that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny plants wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, and resistance to bacterial disease, fungal disease or viral disease;
• (b) selecting progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants;
• (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the OI2653R plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
• (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and physiological and morphological characteristics of sunflower cultivar OI2653R to produce selected backcross progeny plants;
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• (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) one or more times in succession to produce selected second or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of sunflower cultivar OI2653R as determined at the 5 percent significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions.

A method of introducing a desired trait into sunflower cultivar OI1601B wherein the method comprises:

• (a) crossing an OI1601 B plant, representative seed having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-______, with a plant of another sunflower cultivar that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny plants wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, and resistance to bacterial disease, fungal disease or viral disease;
• (b) selecting progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants;
• (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the OI1601B plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
• (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and physiological and morphological characteristics of sunflower cultivar OI1601B to produce selected backcross progeny plants;
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• (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) one or more times in succession to produce selected second or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of sunflower cultivar OI1601 B as determined at the 5 percent significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions.

A method of introducing a desired trait into sunflower cultivar E83329 wherein the method comprises:

• (a) crossing an E83329 plant, representative seed having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-______, with a plant of another sunflower cultivar that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny plants wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, and resistance to bacterial disease, fungal disease or viral disease;
• (b) selecting progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants;
• (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the E83329 plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
• (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and physiological and morphological characteristics of sunflower cultivar E83329 to produce selected backcross progeny plants;
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• (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) one or more times in succession to produce selected second or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of sunflower cultivar E83329 as determined at the 5 percent significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions.