Starchless variety of pisum sativum having elevated levels of sucrose
AssigneeSeminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
InventorsDavid Webster, Diane Burgess
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a Pisum sativum variety that contains a recessive gene called the bsg gene and produces peas that exhibit an elevated level of sucrose and a decreased level of alcohol insoluble solids when compared to peas produced from a Pisum sativum variety that does not contain the bsg gene within its genome.
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A Pisum sativum variety which contains a homozygous bsg gene within its genome, wherein said bsg gene contains a mutation in an intron in a 3′ splice site of said gene.
A Pisum sativum variety which contains a homozygous bsg gene within its genome, wherein said bsg gene has the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 and said nucleotide sequence contains a mutation in an intron at nucleotide 1594 at the 3′ splice site dinucleotide AG, wherein nucleotide A is replaced with nucleotide T.
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