# US 9,516,825 B2 · Onion variety NUN 08003 ON

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- Number: US 9,516,825 B2
- Document ID: US9516825B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 14/953,512
- Filed: 2015-11-30
- Published: 2016-03-17
- Granted: 2016-12-13
- Earliest claimed: 2015-11-30
- Assignees: Nunhems B.V.
- Applicants: Nunhems B.V.
- Inventors: Rick Watson
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9516825B2

## CPC

- A01H 6/045: {Allium cepa [onion]}
- A01H 5/04: Stems
- A01H: NEW PLANTS OR {NON-TRANSGENIC} PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES

## Abstract

The invention relates to the field of Allium in particular to a new variety of onion. designated NUN 08003 ON as well as plants, seeds and bulbs thereof.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A plant or seed of onion variety NUN 08003 ON, wherein a representative sample of said seed has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 42621.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A plant part of the plant of claim 1, defined as a leaf, pollen, a bulb, a scale, an ovule, a fruit, a cutting, umbel, flower or a part of any of these, or a cell.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

A seed grown on the plant of claim 1.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

An onion plant, or a part thereof which comprises the characteristics of the plant of claim 1 described in Table 1.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

A tissue or cell culture of regenerable cells of the plant of claim 1.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The tissue or cell culture according to claim 5, comprising cells or protoplasts from a plant part selected from the group consisting of embryos, meristems, cotyledons, hypocotyl, pollen, leaves, bulbs, scales, anthers, roots, root tips, pistil, petiole, flower, fruit, seed, stem and stalks.

### Claim 7 (depends on 5)

An onion plant regenerated from the tissue or cell culture of claim 5, wherein the plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of NUN 08003 ON, wherein a representative sample of said seed has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 42621.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

A method of producing of the plant of claim 1, or a part thereof, comprising vegetative propagation of the plant of claim 1.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1, 8)

The method of claim 8, wherein said vegetative propagation comprises regenerating a whole plant from a part of the plant of claim 1.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The method of claim 9, wherein said part is a bulb or bulblet, a cutting, a cell culture or a tissue culture.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

A vegetative propagated plant of claim 1, or a part thereof, wherein the plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of claim 1 when determined at the 5% significance level.

### Claim 12 (depends on 1)

A method of producing an onion plant, said method comprising crossing the plant of claim 1 with a second onion plant one or more times, and selecting progeny from said crossing and optionally allowing the progeny to form seed.

### Claim 13 (depends on 1)

A mutant onion plant having one, two or three physiological and/or morphological characteristics which are different from those of the plant of claim 1 and which otherwise has all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of claim 1 as listed in Table 1.

### Claim 14 (depends on 1, 2)

A food or feed product, comprising the plant part of claim 2 wherein the plant part can be identified as a part of the plant of claim 1.

### Claim 15 (depends on 1)

The plant of claim 1 further comprising a single locus conversion, wherein said plant has all or all but one, two or three of the morphological and physiological characteristics of the plant of claim 1, optionally wherein the single locus conversion confers a trait selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, pest resistance, disease resistance, environmental stress tolerance, modified carbohydrate metabolism and modified protein metabolism.

### Claim 16 (depends on 1)

A container comprising the bulb, bulblet or seed of the plant of claim 1.

### Claim 17 (depends on 1)

A method of producing a combination of parental lines of the plant of claim 1 comprising the step of producing at least one further generation from the plant of claim 1 or a seed of claim 1.