Broccoli plants tolerant to hollow/split stem disorder
AssigneeSeminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
InventorsFranciscus van den Bosch, Meinardus Boon
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Abstract
The invention provides broccoli seed and plants that combine high yield and quality with tolerance to hollow/split stem disorder. The invention further provides seed and plants of the broccoli lines designated BRM53-3915 and BRM53-3916 and progeny produced with at least one of these plants as a parent. The invention also relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of hybrid broccoli variety RX05951180.
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A broccoli plant exhibiting tolerance to the hollow stem disorder in combination with an average individual head weight at maturity of from about 400 grams to about 600 grams under standard growing conditions, wherein the genetic information that encodes the tolerance to hollow stem disorder is found in the genome of a plant selected from the group consisting of broccoli line BRM53-3915 and broccoli line BRM53-3916, a sample of seed of said broccoli lines BRM53-3915 and BRM53-3916 having been deposited under ATCC Accession Numbers PTA-9181 and PTA-8175, respectively.
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