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US 2021/0267154 A1Published application
Seedless watermelon plants comprising modifications in an abc transporter gene
AssigneeNunhems B.V.
InventorsAlberto SIRIZZOTTI, Richard Bernard BERENTSEN, Wim VRIEZEN, Lieke MERTENS
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to seedless fruit producing plants. The present invention also comprises methods for production of said plants and the use of nucleic acids encoding ABCB transporter proteins for the production of seedless fruits.
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A plant or plant part of the family Cucurbitaceae or Solanaceae comprising at least one copy of a mutant allele of a gene named Emb2, said gene encodes a Cucurbitaceae Emb2 protein of SEQ ID NO:
- 6 or a protein comprising at least 90% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:
- 6, or a Solanaceae Emb2 protein of SEQ ID NO:
- 9 or a protein comprising at least 90% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:
- 9, said mutant allele conferring stenospermocarpy when the mutant allele is in homozygous form.
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