US 8,658,859 B2 · Cowpea cultivar mississippi pinkeye 2 purplehull

Abstract

A cowpea cultivar designated Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of cowpea cultivar Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull, to the plants of cowpea cultivar Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull, to plant parts of cowpea cultivar Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull and to methods for producing a cowpea plant produced by crossing cowpea cultivar Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull with itself or with another cowpea cultivar. The invention also relates to methods for producing a cowpea plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic cowpea plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to cowpea cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from cowpea cultivar Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull, to methods for producing other cowpea cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from cowpea cultivar Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull and to the cowpea plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid cowpea seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cowpea cultivar Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull with another cowpea cultivar.

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Dependent claims

A seed of cowpea cultivar Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull, wherein a representative sample of seed of said cultivar was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-120450.

A method of introducing a desired trait into cowpea cultivar Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull wherein the method comprises:

(a) crossing a Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull plant, representative seed having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-120450, with a plant of another cowpea cultivar that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny plants wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism 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 Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
(d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and the physiological and morphological characteristics of cowpea cultivar Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull listed in Table 1 to produce selected backcross progeny plants;
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(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) to produce selected first or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of cowpea cultivar Mississippi Pinkeye 2 Purplehull listed in Table 1 and as determined at the 5% significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions.

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