Witloof chicory bobine
AssigneeVilmorin
InventorAlain Lecompte
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Abstract
A novel witloof chicory cultivar, designated ‘BOBINE’, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of witloof chicory cultivar ‘BOBINE’, to the plants of witloof chicory cultivar ‘BOBINE’ and to methods for producing a witloof chicory plant by crossing the cultivar ‘BOBINE’ with itself or another witloof chicory line. The invention further relates to methods for producing other witloof chicory lines derived from the cultivar ‘BOBINE’.
Claims12
A seed of witloof chicory cultivar designated ‘BOBINE’, wherein a representative sample of seed of said cultivar has been deposited under NCIMB No. 42468.
A witloof chicory plant, or a part thereof, having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of witloof chicory cultivar ‘BOBINE’ listed in Table 1.
A method of introducing a desired trait into witloof chicory cultivar ‘BOBINE’ comprising:
- (a) crossing a witloof chicory cultivar ‘BOBINE’ plant grown from witloof chicory cultivar ‘BOBINE’ seed, wherein a representative sample of seed has been deposited under NCIMB No. 12468 with another witloof chicory plant that comprises a desired trait to produce F1 progeny plants, wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of insect resistance, disease resistance, water stress tolerance, heat stress tolerance, improved shelf life, delayed shelf life, increased leaf number and male sterility;
- (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 witloof chicory cultivar ‘BOBINE’ plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
- (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and physiological and morphological characteristics of witloof chicory cultivar ‘BOBINE’ listed in Table 1 to produce selected backcross progeny plants;
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- (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and the physiological and morphological characteristics of witloof chicory cultivar ‘BOBINE’ listed in Table 1.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.