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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2018
Monsanto Technology Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);
David Butruille, Des Moines, IA (US);
Kevin L. Deppermann, St. Charles, MO (US);
Stanton Dotson, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Sam Eathington, Ames, IA (US);
Heather Forbes, St. Charles, MO (US);
Michael W. Petersen, Sauk City, WI (US);
Bruce Schnicker, Wildwood, MO (US);
John Tamulonis, Nevada, IA (US);
Monsanto Technology LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for use in a plant breeding program to generate a population having one or more desired traits. The method includes removing a tissue sample from each of one or more seeds using an automated seed sampler while preserving germination viability of the sampled seeds; analyzing the tissue samples for the presence or absence of a genetic sequence associated with at least one desired trait; based on the analysis of the tissue samples, cultivating plants from the sampled seeds that either possess or lack the genetic sequence associated with the at least one desired trait; creating a parental cross using at least one of the cultivated plants; and selecting seeds from the parental cross and cultivating offspring of the parental cross using the selected seeds.