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US 9,173,355 B2Granted
Carrots having increased lycopene content
AssigneeSeminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
InventorRobert V. Maxwell
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AssigneeSeminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
InventorRobert V. Maxwell
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The present invention relates to carrot lines having roots containing increased levels of lycopene, as well as containers of such carrots. The present invention also relates to parts of carrot plants from lines having roots with increased lycopene content, including seeds capable of growing carrot plants with increased root lycopene content. The invention also provides seed and plants of the carrot lines designated RN 71-4904C, RF 71-4911A, RF 71-4912A, RIF 71-4966C, RIF 71-4967B, or RIF 71-4968B. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of carrot line RN 71-4904C, RF 71-4911A, RF 71-4912A, RIF 71-4966C, RIF 71-4967B, or RIF 71-4968B, and to methods for producing a carrot plant produced by crossing a plant of carrot line RN 71-4904C, RF 71-4911A, RF 71-4912A, RIF 71-4966C, RIF 71-4967B, or RIF 71-4968B with itself or with another carrot plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of carrot line RN 71-4904C, RF 71-4911A, RF 71-4912A, RIF 71-4966C, RIF 71-4967B, or RIF 71-4968B, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
A carrot plant, the roots of which comprise an average lycopene content from about 110 ppm to about 250 ppm and an average brix content from about 11° brix to about 20° brix, wherein the lycopene content of the plant is at least about 110% of the average lycopene content of roots of the carrot variety Nutri-red when the plant and Nutri-red are grown under the same conditions, and wherein said carrot plant comprises the genetic source for expressing the lycopene content in a carrot variety selected from the group consisting of red carrot hybrid 0710 0325, a sample of the seed of which has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-8643;
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