High Pigment Beet
AssigneeWisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
InventorsWarren H. Gabelman, Irwin L. Goldman, D. Nicholas Breitbach
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Abstract
Novel high pigment beet populations and varieties and methods to produce are disclosed. The invention relates to a beet seed, a beet plant, a beet population, a beet variety, a beet hybrid and to a method of producing beets having a high level of total betalain pigments in the root.
Claims28
A beet plant having a pigment concentration of at least 310 mg per 100 g fresh weight of the root.
A method of producing a high pigment beet by:
- a) crossing an HPHS beet population with an HPLS beet population;
- b) harvesting seed from said cross;
- c) growing said seed to produce beet plants and roots;
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- d) selecting beet plants having a pigment content of at least 310 mg per 100 g fresh weight of the root.
A method for producing a high pigment beet, comprising crossing a first beet plant with a second beet plant having a pigment concentration of greater than 310 per 100 g fresh weight of the root;
- and harvesting the resultant F1 hybrid beet.
Viable beet roots to which the increased pigment characteristic is transferred from seeds deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-956 in succeeding generations.
Viable beet roots to which the increased pigment characteristic is transferred from seeds deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-857 in succeeding generations.
Beet seeds and plants to which the increased pigment characteristic is transferred from ATCC Accession number PTA-856 in succeeding generations.
Beet seeds and plants to which the increased pigment characteristic is transferred from ATCC Accession number PTA-857 in succeeding generations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.