# US 2021/0274734 A1 · Celery cultivar tbg 40 > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0274734 A1 - Document ID: US20210274734A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/809,929 - Filed: 2020-03-05 - Published: 2021-09-09 - Earliest claimed: 2020-03-05 - Assignees: A. Duda & Sons, Inc. - Applicants: A. Duda & Sons, Inc. - Inventors: LAWRENCE K. PIERCE - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210274734A1 ## CPC - A01H 6/064: {Apium graveolens [celery]} - A01H 5/04: Stems - A01H 5/10: Seeds - A01H: NEW PLANTS OR {NON-TRANSGENIC} PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES ## Abstract A celery cultivar, designated TBG 40, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of celery cultivar TBG 40, to the plants of celery cultivar TBG 40 and to methods for producing a celery plant by crossing the cultivar TBG 40 with itself or another celery cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a celery plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic celery plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to celery cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from celery cultivar TBG 40, to methods for producing other celery cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from celery cultivar TBG 40 and to the celery plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid celery seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar TBG 40 with another celery cultivar. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A seed, plant, or a plant part thereof, of celery cultivar designated TBG 40, wherein a representative sample of seed of said cultivar has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-______. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A celery plant, or a plant part thereof, having essentially all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the celery plant of claim 1. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) A tissue or cell culture produced from protoplasts or cells from the plant of claim 1, wherein said cells or protoplasts are produced from a plant part selected from the group consisting of leaf, callus, pollen, ovule, embryo, cotyledon, hypocotyl, meristematic cell, root, root tip, pistil, anther, flower, seed, shoot, stem, stalk, petiole and sucker. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) A celery plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 3, wherein said regenerated plant comprises all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of celery cultivar TBG 40. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) A method of producing a celery seed, wherein the method comprises crossing the plant of claim 1 with a different celery plant and harvesting the resultant celery seed. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) A celery seed produced by the method of claim 5. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) A celery plant, or a plant part thereof, produced by growing said seed of claim 6. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) A method of producing an herbicide resistant celery plant, wherein said method comprises introducing a gene conferring herbicide resistance into the plant of claim 1. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) A herbicide resistant celery plant produced by the method of claim 8, wherein the gene confers resistance to a herbicide selected from the group consisting of glyphosate, sulfonylurea, imidazolinone, dicamba, glufosinate, phenoxy proprionic acid, L-phosphinothricin, cyclohexone, cyclohexanedione, triazine, benzonitrile protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO)-inhibitor herbicides, auxin herbicides, and broxynil. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) A method of producing a pest or insect resistant celery plant, wherein said method comprises introducing a gene conferring pest or insect resistance into the celery plant of claim 1. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) A pest or insect resistant celery plant produced by the method of claim 10. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The celery plant of claim 11, wherein the gene encodes a Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) endotoxin. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) A method of producing a disease resistant celery plant, wherein said method comprises introducing a gene into the celery plant of claim 1. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) A disease resistant celery plant produced by the method of claim 13. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) A method of producing a celery plant with modified fatty acid metabolism or modified carbohydrate metabolism comprising transforming the celery plant of claim 1 with a transgene encoding a protein selected from the group consisting of fructosyltransferase, levansucrase, α-amylase, invertase and starch branching enzyme or DNA encoding an antisense of stearyl-ACP desaturase. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) A celery plant having modified fatty acid metabolism or modified carbohydrate metabolism produced by the method of claim 15. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) A method for producing a male sterile celery plant, wherein said method comprises transforming the celery plant of claim 1 with a nucleic acid molecule that confers male sterility. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) A male sterile celery plant produced by the method of claim 17. ### Claim 19 A method of introducing a desired trait into celery cultivar TBG 40, wherein the method comprises: (a) crossing a TBG 40 plant, wherein a representative sample of seed was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-______, with a plant of another celery cultivar that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny plants, wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of improved nutritional quality, industrial usage, male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, modified seed yield, modified lodging resistance, modified iron-deficiency chlorosis and resistance to bacterial disease, fungal disease or viral disease; (b) selecting one or more progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants; (c) backcrossing the selected progeny plants with the TBG 40 plants to produce backcross progeny plants; (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait; and (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) two or more times in succession to produce selected third or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) A celery plant produced by the method of claim 19, wherein the plant has the desired trait and otherwise all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of celery cultivar TBG 40. ### Claim 21 (depends on 20) The celery plant of claim 20, wherein the desired trait is herbicide resistance and the resistance is conferred to a herbicide selected from the group consisting of imidazolinone, dicamba, cyclohexanedione, sulfonylurea, glyphosate, glufosinate, phenoxy proprionic acid, L-phosphinothricin, triazine, benzonitrile protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO)-inhibitor herbicides, auxin herbicides, and broxynil. ### Claim 22 (depends on 20) The celery plant of claim 20, wherein the desired trait is insect resistance and the insect resistance is conferred by a gene encoding a Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin. ### Claim 23 (depends on 20) The celery plant of claim 20, wherein the desired trait is male sterility and the trait is conferred by a cytoplasmic nucleic acid molecule. ### Claim 24 (depends on 1) A method of producing a genetically modified celery plant, wherein the method comprises mutation, transformation, gene conversion, genome editing, RNA interference or gene silencing of the plant of claim 1. ### Claim 25 (depends on 24) A genetically modified celery plant produced by the method of claim 24, wherein the plant comprises the genetic modification and otherwise comprises essentially all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of celery cultivar TBG 40.