Watermelon with improved processing qualities
AssigneeSeminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
InventorsGreg TOLLA, Benito JUAREZ, Fred McCUISTION
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Abstract
A watermelon plant that produces fruit having (i) ultra-firm flesh and/or liquid-retaining flesh and (ii) soluble solids of at least about 6 brix.
Claims31
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A watermelon plant that produces a mature fruit having soluble solids of at least about 6 brix, and said fruit having flesh that resists pressure of at least 3.5 pounds force (lbf).
A watermelon plant that produces a mature fruit having liquid-retaining flesh, that when cut, loses less than about three and one-half percent weight after three days storage at 4° centigrade,
- loses less than about three percent weight after three days storage at 4° centigrade,
- loses less than about two percent weight after three days storage at 4° centigrade,
- loses less than about one and one-half percent weight after three days storage at 4° centigrade,
- loses less than about five percent weight after a week of storage at 4° centigrade,
- loses less than about four percent weight after a week of storage at 4° centigrade,
- loses less than about three percent weight after a week of storage at 4° centigrade, or
- loses less than about two and one-half percent weight after a week of storage at 4° centigrade.
A hybrid watermelon plant that produces a mature fruit having soluble solids of at least about 6 brix and said fruit having flesh that resists pressure of at least 3.5 pounds force (lbf).
A hybrid watermelon plant that produces a mature fruit having liquid-retaining flesh that when cut loses less than about three and one-half percent weight after three days storage at 4° centigrade,
- loses less than about three percent weight after three days storage at 4° centigrade,
- loses less than about two percent weight after three days storage at 4° centigrade,
- loses less than about one and one-half percent weight after three days storage at 4° centigrade,
- loses less than about five percent weight after a week of storage at 4° centigrade,
- loses less than about four percent weight after a week of storage at 4° centigrade,
- loses less than about three percent weight after a week of storage at 4° centigrade, or
- loses less than about two and one-half percent weight after a week of storage at 4° centigrade.
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