Inbred cantaloupe line I446
AssigneeHarris Moran Seed Company
InventorBill Copes
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Abstract
An inbred cantaloupe line, designated I446, a hybrid cantaloupe designated I446*I444, and a hybrid cantaloupe designated I446*I407 are disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred cantaloupe line I446, of hybrid cantaloupe I446*I444, and of hybrid cantaloupe I446*I407, to the plants and plant parts of inbred cantaloupe line I446, of hybrid cantaloupe I446*I444, and of hybrid cantaloupe I446*I407 and to methods for producing a cantaloupe plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line I446 with itself or another cantaloupe line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a cantaloupe plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred cantaloupe lines derived from the inbred I446.
Claims19
A seed of cantaloupe inbred line I446, wherein a representative sample of seed of said line was deposited under NCIMB No. 41427.
A cantaloupe plant, or a part thereof, having all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of inbred line I446.
A method of introducing a desired trait into cantaloupe inbred line I446 wherein the method comprises:
- (a) crossing the inbred line I446 plants grown from the inbred line I446 seed, wherein a representative sample of seed of said line was deposited under NCIMB No. 41427, with plants of another cantaloupe line that comprise a desired trait to produce F1 progeny plants, wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, male fertility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, disease resistance, increased sugar content, increased sweetness, increased flavor, improved ripening control and improved salt tolerance;
- (b) selecting one or more progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants;
- (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the inbred line I446 plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
- (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and physiological and morphological characteristics of cantaloupe inbred line I446 listed in Table 1 to produce selected backcross progeny plants;
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- (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of cantaloupe inbred line I446 as listed in the VARIETY DESCRIPTION INFORMATION.
A hybrid cantaloupe seed designated I446* I444 having inbred line I446 as a parental line, wherein a representative sample of seed was deposited under NCIMB No. 41434, and hybrid cantaloupe seed designated I446*I407 having inbred line I446 as a parental line, wherein a representative sample of seed was deposited under NCIMB No. 41435.
A method for producing inbred line I446, wherein a representative sample of seed of said line was deposited under NCIMB No. 41427, wherein the method comprises:
- a) planting a collection of seed comprising seed of a hybrid, one of whose parents is inbred line I446, said collection also comprising seed of said inbred;
- b) growing plants from said collection of seed;
- c) identifying the plants having the physiological and morphological characteristics of cantaloupe inbred line I446 as inbred parent plants;
- d) controlling pollination of said inbred parent plants in a manner which preserves the homozygosity of said inbred parent plant;
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- e) harvesting the resultant seed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.