Cultivated melon with a sour taste and a process for the production thereof
AssigneeYurie Shintaku
InventorsSetsuo Kataoka, Yurie Shintaku
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an F.sub.1 hybrid melon characterized by having a sour taste, produced by crossing a melon having at least one dominant allele for expression of weak-acid pH value in flesh and at least one recessive allele for expression of mealy character in flesh and a cultivated melon having at least one recessive allele for expression of neutral pH value in flesh and at least one dominant allele for expression of juicy character in flesh as well as to a process for the production thereof. According to the present invention, there is provided a novel melon with both sour and sweet tastes.
Claims7
A sour tasting Cucumis melo F1 hybrid melon derived from the breeding line MR1 having ATCC Accession No. 97226 produced from a plant wherein said plant is grown from a seed and said plant has at least one dominant allele that produces flesh with a mean pH value below 5.4 and at least one dominant allele for expression of juicy character in flesh, and said plant produces melons of an average weight of less than 1.7 kg.
A process for producing a sour tasting melon with at least one dominant allele that produces flesh with a mean pH value below 5.4 and at least one dominant allele for expression of juicy character in flesh comprising:
- crossing a MR1 having ATCC Accession No. 97226 breeding line Cucumis melo plant having at least one dominant allele for expression of a weakly acidic pH value in flesh and at least one recessive allele for expression of mealy character in flesh with a cultivated melon producing plant having at least one recessive allele for expression of a neutral pH value in flesh and at least one dominant allele for expression of juicy character in flesh.
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