# US 2023/0067366 A1 · Hydrangea plant 'HMOPICO04-0'

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- Number: US 2023/0067366 A1
- Document ID: US20230067366A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 17/401,099
- Filed: 2021-08-12
- Published: 2023-03-02
- Earliest claimed: 2021-08-12
- Inventors: James Devereux
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20230067366A1

## CPC

- A01H 6/48: Hydrangeacae, e.g. Hydrangea
- A01H 5/02: Flowers
- A01H: NEW PLANTS OR {NON-TRANSGENIC} PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES

## Abstract

The invention relates to the field of Hydrangea, specifically, the variety designated ‘HMOPICO04-0’. The variety ‘HMOPICO04-0’ is characterized by its lack of vernalization requirement for induction and development of flowering, day-length neutral flowering, cold tolerance to USDA Zone 5 and lace-cap inflorescence having pink and white flowers. The present invention relates to plant parts, including cells and any propagative material of the new variety ‘HMOPICO04-0’, use of any of the plant parts for reproducing the new variety ‘HMOPICO04-0’. The present invention relates to methods using any plant parts or progeny of ‘HMOPICO04-0’ for the purpose of deriving additional new Hydrangea varieties. The present invention relates to seed, plants and plant parts produced by crossing ‘HMOPICO04-0’ with any other Hydrangea variety or other plant. The present invention also relates to methods to produce new varieties of Hydrangea oleracea using the variety ‘HMOPICO04-0’ and applying plant breeding techniques.

## Claims

### Claim 1

Hydrangea ‘HMOPICO04-0’, representative biological material to be deposited at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Me.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A plant or a plant part thereof produced by growing the plant of claim 1, wherein the plant or plant part comprises at least one cell of Hydrangea ‘HMOPICO04-0’.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

A Hydrangea plant or part thereof, having the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plants of claim 1.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The tissue or cell culture of regenerable cells produced from the plant of claim 1.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The tissue or cell culture of claim 4, comprising tissues or cells from a plant part selected from the group consisting of leaves, vegetative cuttings, pollen, embryos, cotyledons, hypocotyl, meristematic cells, roots, root tips, pistils, anthers, flowers and stems.

### Claim 6

A method of producing Hydrangea progeny comprising the steps of
(a) crossing a plant of Hydrangea ‘HMOPICO04-0’ as a female or male parent with another Hydrangea plant or other plant and (b) selecting progeny.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The method according to claim 6, wherein the second plant is Hydrangea ‘HMOPICO04-0’.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

A Hydrangea seed that produces the Hydrangea plants of claim 1.

### Claim 9

A method for developing a Hydrangea plant in a plant breeding program using plant breeding techniques, including crossing, recurrent selection, mutation breeding, wherein said mutation breeding selects for a mutation that is spontaneously or naturally induced or artificially induced, backcrossing, pedigree breeding, marker enhanced selection, haploid/double haploid production or transformation to a plant of Hydrangea ‘HMOPICO04-0’, or it's parts, or progeny wherein application of said techniques results in development of a Hydrangea plant.