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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2017
Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Benoit Gorguet, Avignon, FR;
Carl M. Jones, Sacramento, CA (US);
Dirk Vreugdenhil, 's-Gravenzande, NL;
Rebeca N. Benitez, Davis, CA (US);
Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
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.