Broccoli plant that produces small flower buds with uniform size and high yield, and method for producing processed product thereof
AssigneeSakata Seed Corporation
InventorTomoaki FUNABIKI
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Abstract
A broccoli plant is disclosed that allows for production of florets with uniform size and high yield, and is suitable for a processed broccoli product that is obtained by dividing the broccoli plant into florets. This broccoli plant has genes involved in floret production in the nuclear genome and allows for production of florets with uniform size and high yield. The broccoli plant facilitates floret processing and makes it possible to provide a broccoli product with high commercial value that is obtained by dividing the broccoli plant into florets.
Claims22
A broccoli plant or a progeny thereof, comprising in its nuclear genome a gene involved in producing florets, which enables production of florets of uniform size with high yield.
A method for producing a processed product of florets of broccoli, comprising:
- the steps of:
- cutting out florets of secondary stems from a head of a broccoli plant in which a ratio (%) of a number of floret portions of more than 2.0 cm and 4.0 cm or less in diameter to a total number of floret portions (the ratio of floret portions) is at least 40% when a diameter of the head is 14.0 cm or more and 17.0 cm or less;
- and optionally packaging the cut our florets of the secondary stems.
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