Hybrid carrot variety purple elite
AssigneeNunhems B.V.
InventorRoger Freeman
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Abstract
The present invention relates to plants of a carrot variety PURPLE ELITE and seeds and progeny thereof. The invention further relates to methods for producing a carrot plant by traditional breeding methods. The invention further relates to a method for producing a carrot plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes.
Claims25
A carrot plant, designated PURPLE ELITE, or part thereof;
- a representative sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB/ATCC Accession Number 42278.
A seed of variety PURPLE ELITE, a representative sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42278.
A method of introducing a desired trait into a carrot plant comprising:
- (a) crossing a plant of variety PURPLE ELITE with a second carrot plant that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny;
- (b) selecting progeny that comprise the desired trait;
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- (c) optionally selfing the progeny one or more times to produce further generation selfing progeny;
- a representative sample of seed of PURPLE ELITE having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42278.
A method of producing a carrot plant comprising an added desired trait, the method comprising introducing a transgene conferring the desired trait into a plant of carrot variety PURPLE ELITE, a representative sample of seed of PURPLE ELITE having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42278.
A method for producing a seed of a variety derived from PURPLE ELITE comprising the steps of:
- (a) crossing a carrot plant of variety PURPLE ELITE with a second carrot plant;
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- (b) allowing seed of a variety PURPLE ELITE-derived carrot plant to form, a representative sample of seed of PURPLE ELITE having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42278.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.