US 8,507,776 B2 · Plants and seeds of common wheat cultivar WB-249

Abstract

A wheat cultivar, designated WB-249, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar WB-249, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar WB-249 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-249, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-249, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar WB-249 with another wheat cultivar.

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A seed of wheat cultivar WB-249, a representative sample of seed of which was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11952.

A method of introducing a desired trait into wheat cultivar WB-249, wherein the method comprises:

(a) crossing a WB-249 plant, wherein a representative sample of seed is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11952, with a plant of another wheat cultivar that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny plants wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism, modified protein metabolism, modified phytic acid metabolism, modified waxy starch content, modified protein content, increased tolerance to water stress and resistance to bacterial disease, fungal disease or viral disease;
(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 WB-249 plant to produce backcross progeny plants;
(d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and essentially all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of wheat cultivar WB-249 listed in Table 1;
and
(e) repeating the crossing the selected progeny step and selecting for backcross progeny step two or more times in succession to produce selected third or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and essentially all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of wheat cultivar WB-249 listed in Table 1.

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Plants and seeds of common wheat cultivar WB-249

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