Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.

Rebeca N Benitez

Carl Martin Jones

Dirk Vreugdenhil

Benoit Gorguet

Carl M Jones

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.

Growing community of inventors

Davis, CA, United States of America

Rebeca N Benitez