# US 2026/0060199 A1 · Hybrid tomato plant named hm 0371

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- Number: US 2026/0060199 A1
- Document ID: US20260060199A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 18/825,983
- Filed: 2024-09-05
- Published: 2026-03-05
- Earliest claimed: 2024-09-05
- Assignees: Hm.Clause, Inc.
- Applicants: Hm.Clause, Inc.
- Inventors: Chunxiao Jiang
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20260060199A1

## CPC

- A01H 6/825: {Solanum lycopersicum [tomato]}
- A01H 5/08: Fruits
- A01H: NEW PLANTS OR {NON-TRANSGENIC} PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES

## Abstract

A hybrid tomato plant, designated HM 0371 is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid tomato designated HM 0371, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid tomato designated HM 0371, and to methods for producing a tomato plant by crossing the hybrid tomato HM 0371 with itself or another tomato plant.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A seed of hybrid tomato designated HM 0371, wherein a representative sample of seed of said hybrid has been deposited under NCIMB No. ______.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A tomato plant, a part thereof, or a cell thereof, wherein the tomato plant produced by growing the seed of claim 1 has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid tomato designated HM 0371 deposited under NCIMB No. ______.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The tomato plant, the part thereof, or the cell thereof of claim 2, wherein the part is selected from the group consisting of a leaf, a flower, a stalk, a root, a rootstock, a scion, a peduncle, a stamen, an anther, a pistil, a pollen, an ovule, and a meristem.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

A tissue culture of regenerable cells produced from the tomato plant or the part thereof of claim 2, wherein a tomato plant regenerated from the tissue culture has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid tomato designated HM 0371 deposited under NCIMB No. ______.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

A tomato plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 4, wherein said plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid tomato designated HM 0371 deposited under NCIMB No. ______.

### Claim 6 (depends on 2)

A tomato fruit produced from the plant of claim 2.

### Claim 7 (depends on 2)

A method for harvesting a tomato fruit, the method comprising: (a) growing the tomato plant of claim 2 to produce a tomato fruit, and (b) harvesting said tomato fruit.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

A tomato fruit produced by the method of claim 7.

### Claim 9 (depends on 2)

A method for producing a tomato seed, the method comprising: (a) crossing a first tomato plant with a second tomato plant and (b) harvesting the resultant tomato seed, wherein said first tomato plant and/or second tomato plant is the tomato plant of claim 2.

### Claim 10 (depends on 2)

A method for producing a tomato seed, the method comprising: (a) self-pollinating the tomato plant of claim 2 and (b) harvesting the resultant tomato seed.

### Claim 11 (depends on 2)

A method of vegetatively propagating the tomato plant of claim 2, the method comprising: (a) collecting a part capable of being propagated from the plant and (b) regenerating a plant from said part.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The method of claim 11, further comprising (c) harvesting a fruit from said regenerated plant.

### Claim 13 (depends on 11)

A plant obtained from the method of claim 11, wherein said plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid tomato designated HM 0371 deposited under NCIMB No. ______.

### Claim 14 (depends on 12)

A fruit obtained from the method of claim 12.

### Claim 15 (depends on 2)

A method of producing a tomato plant obtained from hybrid tomato designated HM 0371, the method comprising: (a) self-pollinating the tomato plant of claim 2 at least once to produce a progeny tomato plant obtained from hybrid tomato designated HM 0371.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The method of claim 15, further comprising the steps of:
(b) crossing the progeny tomato plant obtained from the hybrid tomato designated HM 0371 with itself or a second tomato plant to produce a progeny seed of a subsequent generation;
(c) growing a progeny plant from the progeny seed of the subsequent generation;
(d) crossing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation with itself or a second tomato plant to produce a tomato plant derived from the hybrid tomato designated HM 0371; and
(e) repeating step (c) and (d) for at least one generation to produce a tomato plant further derived from the hybrid tomato designated HM 0371.

### Claim 17 (depends on 2)

A method of producing a tomato plant obtained from hybrid tomato designated HM 0371, the method comprising: (a) crossing the tomato plant of claim 2 with a second tomato plant to produce a progeny tomato plant obtained from hybrid tomato designated HM 0371.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The method of claim 17, further comprising the steps of:
(b) crossing the progeny tomato plant obtained from the hybrid tomato plant designated HM 0371 with itself or a second tomato plant to produce a progeny seed of a subsequent generation;
(c) growing a progeny plant from the progeny seed of the subsequent generation;
(d) crossing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation with itself or a second tomato plant to produce a tomato plant derived from the tomato hybrid tomato plant designated HM 0371; and
(e) repeating step (c) and (d) for at least one generation to produce a tomato plant further derived from the hybrid tomato plant designated HM 0371.

### Claim 19

A method of producing a plant of hybrid tomato designated HM 0371 comprising at least one desired trait, the method comprising introducing a single locus conversion conferring the desired trait into hybrid tomato designated HM 0371 deposited under NCIMB No. ______, whereby a plant of hybrid tomato designated HM 0371 comprising the desired trait is produced.

### Claim 20 (depends on 19)

A tomato plant, a part thereof, or a cell thereof, produced by the method of claim 19, wherein the plant, the part, or the cell thereof comprises a single locus conversion and otherwise all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid tomato designated HM 0371 deposited under NCIMB No. ______.

### Claim 21 (depends on 20)

The plant of claim 20, wherein the single locus conversion confers said plant with male sterility, male fertility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, disease resistance, water stress tolerance, heat tolerance, improved standability, enhanced plant vigor, improved shelf life, delayed senescence or controlled ripening, and increased nutritional quality.

### Claim 22 (depends on 20)

The plant of claim 20, wherein the single locus conversion is introduced into the plant by a gene-editing technique selected from the group consisting of zinc finger nucleases, transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), engineered homing endonucleases/meganucleases, and the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated protein9 (Cas9) system.

### Claim 23 (depends on 2)

A method of producing a tomato plant, the method comprising: grafting a rootstock or a scion of the hybrid tomato plant of claim 2 to another tomato plant.

### Claim 24 (depends on 2)

A method for producing nucleic acids, the method comprising: isolating nucleic acids from the plant of claim 2, a part, or a cell thereof.

### Claim 25 (depends on 2)

A method for producing a second tomato plant, the method comprising applying plant breeding techniques to the plant or part of claim 2 to produce the second tomato plant.