# US 2013/0160167 A1 · Watermelon variety nun 01007 wmw

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- Number: US 2013/0160167 A1
- Document ID: US20130160167A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 13/762,551
- Filed: 2013-02-08
- Published: 2013-06-20
- Earliest claimed: 2013-02-08
- Assignees: Nunhems B.V.
- Inventors: Erik de Groot
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20130160167A1

## CPC

- C12N 15/8261: {with agronomic (input) traits, e.g. crop yield}
- A01H 5/08: Fruits
- B65B 5/00: Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
- C12N: MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA (microbiological testing media C12Q1/00)
- A01H: NEW PLANTS OR {NON-TRANSGENIC} PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES
- B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00)

## Abstract

The present invention relates to plants and plant parts of a watermelon variety NUN 01007 WMW, seeds from which the plant can be grown and seedless fruit produced on the plant, as well as vegetative reproductions of NUN 01007. Further, the invention relates to natural or induced phenotypic variants of the plant, such as mutants or somaclonal variants.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A triploid watermelon plant, designated NUN 01007, or part thereof, a representative sample of seeds of which having been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB ______.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A triploid watermelon plant, which does not significantly differ from the plant of claim 1 in the following characteristics when grown under the same conditions: 1) maturity, 2) average number of main stems at the crown of the plant, 3) average number of pistillate and staminate flowers at first fruit set, 4) the average fruit diameter at midsection of the mature fruits, and 5) the average fruit rind thickness at blossom end and on the sides at midsection.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The triploid watermelon plant which does not significantly differ from the plant of claim 1 in the following characteristics when grown under the same conditions: 1) maturity, 2) average number of main stems at the crown of the plant, 3) average number of pistillate and staminate flowers at first fruit set, 4) the average fruit diameter at midsection of the mature fruits, and 5) the average fruit rind thickness at blossom end and on the sides at midsection, and which further does not significantly differ from the plant of claim 1 in one or more of the following characteristics when grown under the same conditions: 6) the ratio of average vine length to average number of internodes, 7) the average leaf length, 8) the flower color, 9) the maximum fruit weight, 10) the primary and secondary fruit color, 11) the fruit flesh color, 12) the percentage of fruits developing Hollow heart.

### Claim 4

A seed designated NUN 01007, a representative sample of seeds having been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB ______.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

A plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 4.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The triploid watermelon plant or part thereof of claim 1, produced by in vitro culture or by grafting of a scion derived from NUN 01007 to a different rootstock.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1, 5)

A fruit produced on the plant of claim 1 or claim 5.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1, 4)

A plant cell culture or tissue culture of the watermelon plant or part thereof of claim 1 or of the seed or part of the seed of claim 4.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The plant part of claim 1, wherein the part is selected from the group consisting of: a scion, a rootstock, a cell, a cotyledon, a fruit, a shoot, a shoot tip, a seed, a root, a hypocotyl, an embryo, a protoplast, a leaf, a meristem, a flower or a stem, or a part of any of these.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

A watermelon plant which is regenerated from the plant part of claim 1, wherein the part is selected from the group consisting of: a scion, a rootstock, a cell, a cotyledon, a fruit, a shoot, a shoot tip, a hypocotyl, an embryo, a seed, a protoplast, a leaf, a meristem, a flower or a stem, or a part of any of these, and wherein the regenerated plant does not significantly differ from the plant of claim 1 in the following characteristics when grown under the same conditions: 1) maturity, 2) average number of main stems at the crown of the plant, 3) average number of pistillate and staminate flowers at first fruit set, 4) the average fruit diameter at midsection of the mature fruits, and 5) the average fruit rind thickness at blossom end and on the sides at midsection.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The watermelon plant which is regenerated from the plant part of claim 1, wherein the part is selected from the group consisting of: a scion, a rootstock, a cell, a cotyledon, a fruit, a shoot, a shoot tip, a hypocotyl, an embryo, a seed, a protoplast, a leaf, a meristem, a flower or a stem, or a part of any of these, and wherein the regenerated plant does not significantly differ from the plant of claim 1 in the following characteristics when grown under the same conditions: 1) maturity, 2) average number of main stems at the crown of the plant, 3) average number of pistillate and staminate flowers at first fruit set, 4) the average fruit diameter at midsection of the mature fruits, and 5) the average fruit rind thickness at blossom end and on the sides at midsection, and which further does not significantly differ from the plant of claim 1 in one or more of the following characteristics when grown under the same conditions: 6) the ratio of average vine length to average number of internodes, 7) the average leaf length, 8) the flower color, 9) the maximum fruit weight, 10) the primary and secondary fruit color, 11) the fruit flesh color, 12) the percentage of fruits developing Hollow heart.

### Claim 12 (depends on 9)

A watermelon plant which is regenerated from the part of the plant of claim 9 and which has essentially all the morphological and/or physiological characteristics of NUN 01007 when grown under the same conditions, a representative sample of seeds of NUN 01007 having been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB ______.

### Claim 13 (depends on 9)

A watermelon plant which is regenerated from the part of the plant of claim 9 and which has essentially all the morphological and/or physiological characteristics of NUN 01007 when grown under the same conditions, except that it is significantly different from NUN 01007 in 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 characteristics, a representative sample of seeds of NUN 01007 having been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB ______.

### Claim 14 (depends on 10)

A fruit produced on the plant of claim 10.

### Claim 15 (depends on 1)

A watermelon plant derived the watermelon plant or plant part of claim 1 having at least one, two or three physiological and/or morphological characteristics which are different from those of NUN 01007 and which otherwise has essentially all physiological and morphological characteristics of a watermelon plant designated NUN 01007 when grown under the same conditions, a representative sample of seeds of NUN 01007 having been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB ______.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The watermelon plant of claim 15, obtained by selecting a natural or induced mutant, or a somaclonal variant from a population of plants or from plant parts or from seeds of NUN 01007, a representative sample of seeds of NUN 01007 having been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB ______.

### Claim 17 (depends on 1, 10, 15)

A method of producing seedless watermelon fruits, said method comprising:
a) interplanting a plant of claim 1, or a plant of claim 10, or a plant of claim 15, with a pollinizer plant in one field:
b) allowing the pollen of the pollinizer to pollinate the flowers of the plant of claim 1, 10 or 15, respectively,
c) harvesting the fruit from the plants of claim 1, 10 or 15, respectively; and optionally
d) packaging the fruits into containers.

### Claim 18 (depends on 4)

The seed of claim 4, wherein the seed is primed and/or wherein the seed further comprises one or more compounds or compositions selected from: a biological control agent, a fungicidal composition, a insecticidal composition, a nematicidal composition or an acaricidal composition.

### Claim 19 (depends on 1)

The plant of claim 1, wherein the plant comprises a different rootstock.

### Claim 20 (depends on 10)

The plant of claim 10, wherein the plant comprises a different rootstock.

### Claim 21 (depends on 15)

The plant of claim 15, wherein the plant comprises a different rootstock.