Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.

Monsanto Invest B.v.

Monsanto Invest N.v.

Dirk Vreugdenhil

Carl Martin Jones

Anton Pieter Allersma

Brian J Just

Terry Berke

Joel M Kniskern

Brad Kane Gabor

Wenwen Xiang

René Johannes Maria Hofstede

Benoit Gorguet

Rebeca N Benitez

Caicheng Huang

Pablo A Quijada

René Johannes M Hofstede

Carl M Jones

Brad K Gabor

Terry G Berke

Anton P Allersma

Rene Johannes Hofstede

The invention relates to pepper plants and lines having resistance to Powdery Mildew, caused by the fungus. The invention also relates to parts of pepper plants from lines having Powdery Mildew resistance, including seeds capable of growing pepper plants with Powdery Mildew resistance, and fruit. Methods for the identification, use and breeding of Powdery Mildew resistant pepper plants are also provided.

Methods and compositions for producing capsicum plants with powdery mildew resistance

The present invention provides methods and composition for preparing seeds that when cultivated produce pepper plants with seedless fruits. These plants may further be male sterile and contain a stable non-Peterson Cytoplasmic Male Sterility ('CMS'). The invention also provides essentially pure populations of seed that, when grown, produce pepper plants with seedless fruit. Methods are provided comprising crossing a stable non-Peterson CMS plant as a female parent with pepper lines displaying a parthenocarpy trait. The invention also includes the seeds produced by such a method. Methods for breeding and using seedless pepper plants for enhancing the production of fruit under suboptimal temperature conditions are also provided.

Seedless pepper plants

The present invention relates to a method of producing a plant of thegenus that exhibits resistance to Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) pathotype 1.2.3, comprising providing a recipient plant of thegenus that is susceptible to PMMoV pathotype 1.2.3 or a part thereof, and introducing into the genome of the recipient plant or a part thereof or a progeny plant thereof a genomic region comprising a truncated L4 resistance allele, wherein the allele comprises genetic information capable of being expressed in the plant or plant part or progeny plant thereby conferring resistance to PMMoV pathotype 1.2.3 to the plant or plant part or progeny plant, and wherein genetic information that confers the SNFD phenotype is absent from the allele at least to such an extent that the SNFD phenotype is not expressed.

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The present invention relates to a plant of thegenus, which plant exhibits resistance to Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) pathotype 1.2.3 due to the presence of the L4 resistance allele in the genome of said plant, wherein the genetic information responsible for the SNFD phenotype is absent from or is repressed in the genome of said plant at least to such an extent that the SNFD phenotype is not expressed. The present invention further relates to a method of producing a plant of thegenus that exhibits resistance to PMMoV pathotype 1.2.3, comprising the steps of a) providing a recipient plant of thegenus that is susceptible to PMMoV pathotype 1.2.3 or a part thereof, and b) introducing into the genome of said recipient plant or a part thereof or a progeny plant thereof a genomic region comprising a truncated L4 resistance allele, wherein said allele comprises genetic information capable of being expressed in said plant or plant part or progeny plant thereby conferring resistance to PMMoV pathotype 1.2.3 to said plant or plant part or progeny plant, and wherein genetic information that confers the SNFD phenotype is absent from said allele at least to such an extent that the SNFD phenotype is not expressed.

PMMoV resistant capsicum plants

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's-Gravenzande, Netherlands

Dirk Vreugdenhil