Watermelon variety was-45-2158s
AssigneeSeminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
InventorGregory E. Tolla
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Abstract
The invention provides seed and plants of the watermelon line designated WAS-45-2158S. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S, and to methods for producing a watermelon plant produced by crossing a plant of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S with itself or with another watermelon plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S, including the fruits and gametes of such plants.
Claims22
A seed of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12320.
A plant of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12320.
A tissue culture of regenerable cells of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12320.
A method for producing a seed of a line WAS-45-2158S-derived watermelon plant comprising the steps of:
- (a) crossing a watermelon plant of line WAS-45-2158S with a second watermelon plant, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12320;
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- (b) allowing seed of a WAS-45-2158S-derived watermelon plant to form.
A method of vegetatively propagating a plant of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S comprising the steps of:
- (a) collecting tissue capable of being propagated from a plant of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12320;
- (b) cultivating said tissue to obtain proliferated shoots;
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- (c) rooting said proliferated shoots to obtain rooted plantlets.
A method of introducing a desired trait into watermelon line WAS-45-2158S comprising:
- (a) crossing a plant of line WAS-45-2158S with a second watermelon plant that comprises a desired trait to produce F1 progeny, a sample of seed of said line WAS-45-2158S having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12320;
- (b) selecting an F1 progeny that comprises the desired trait;
- (c) crossing the selected F1 progeny with a plant of line WAS-45-2158S to produce backcross progeny;
- (d) selecting backcross progeny comprising the desired trait and the physiological and morphological characteristic of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S;
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- (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny that comprise the desired trait and essentially all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S when grown in the same environmental conditions.
A method of producing a plant of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S comprising an added desired trait, the method comprising introducing a transgene conferring the desired trait into a plant of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S, a sample of seed of said line WAS-45-2158S having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12320.
A seed of the plant of claim 21.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.