Stevia plant having less ability to form flower buds
AssigneeSuntory Holdings Limited
InventorsTadayoshi HIRAI, Kazunari IWAKI, Kentaro OCHIAI
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Abstract
The present invention provides a stevia plant having a low ability to form flower buds as compared with the wild type stevia species. The present invention also provides a method of producing such a stevia plant having a low ability to form flower buds, and an extract or a steviol glycoside purified product obtainable from such a plant.
Claims24
A stevia plant having a low ability to form flower buds as compared with the wild type.
A method of screening for a stevia plant with a low ability to form flower buds, comprising a step of detecting from the genome of a test stevia plant the presence and/or the absence of a genetic feature of being heterozygous or homozygous for the allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 90 of SEQ ID NO:
- 150 is G, and/or the base at the position corresponding to position 108 of SEQ ID NO:
- 150 is G.
A screening kit for a stevia plant with a low ability to form flower buds, comprising a reagent for detecting the presence and/or the absence of a genetic feature of being heterozygous or homozygous for the allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 90 of SEQ ID NO:
- 150 is G, and/or being heterozygous or homozygous for the allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 108 of SEQ ID NO:
- 150 is G.
A method of producing a stevia plant with a low ability to form flower buds, comprising a step of introducing a variation from A to G to a position corresponding to position 90 of SEQ ID NO:
- 150, and/or a step of introducing a variation from T to G to a position corresponding to position 108 of SEQ ID NO:
- 150.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.