Brilliant White Cauliflower
AssigneeSeminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
InventorsMeinardus Petrus Boon, Franciscus van den Bosch, Gerard Koorevaar
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Abstract
The present invention includes cauliflowers with enhanced whiteness and methods for obtaining such cauliflowers. The present invention also provides reagents that can be used in methods for obtaining such cauliflowers.
Claims24
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A method of introgressing at least one brilliant white curd allele into a cauliflower plant comprising
- a) crossing a first cauliflower line having at least one white curd allele with a second cauliflower line as a second parent to form a segregating population;
- b) screening said segregating population with a nucleic acid molecule capable of identifying a white curd allele at QTLO1, QTLO2a, QTLO2b, QTLO7, or QTLO9 for a member having at least one white curd allele;
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- c) selecting a cauliflower plant that contains at least one white curd allele at QTLO1, QTLO2a, QTLO2b, QTLO7, or QTLO9 for further crossing.
A method of producing a cauliflower plant comprising a brilliant white curd, the method comprising:
- a) selecting a plant from cauliflower plant line CEL/1857 as a first parent;
- b) crossing the first parent with a second cauliflower plant selected from cauliflower line CEL/1857, PI183214, 901203-2/FREMONT, NY6633, NY3339, 90331, BCSS, HOCE, or PWCE as a second parent;
- c) growing cauliflower seed produced by said cross to yield a progeny cauliflower plant;
- d) determining a color score on the Ctifl color chart for the progeny cauliflower plant;
- e) if the progeny cauliflower plant has a color score equal or greater than C4 on the Ctifl color chart, repeating steps b) through d) using the progeny cauliflower plant in each successive round as the first parent to be crossed with said second cauliflower plant until a cauliflower plant having a color score less than C4 on the Ctifl color chart has been produced,
- thereby producing a cauliflower plant having a brilliant white curd.
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A method of identifying a plant with a white curd allele comprising screening a plant population with a nucleic acid molecule capable of identifying a white curd allele at QTLO1, QTLO2a, QTLO2b, QTLO7, or QTLO9;
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- identifying said cauliflower plant that contains at least one white curd allele at QTLO1, QTLO2a, QTLO2b, QTLO7, or QTLO9.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.