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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
May. 11, 2021
Applicant:
Suntory Holdings Limited, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Tadayoshi Hirai, Kyoto, JP;
Kazunari Iwaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Kentaro Ochiai, Kyoto, JP;
Saori Takeyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Katsuro Miyagawa, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/6895 (2018.01); A01H 6/14 (2018.01); A23L 27/30 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/6895 (2013.01); A01H 6/1488 (2018.05); A23L 27/36 (2016.08); C12Q 2600/13 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of screening for a stevia plant with high steviol glycoside content, that includes detecting from the genome of a test stevia plant the presence and/or the absence of the following genetic feature: (1) homozygous for the allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 290 of SEQ ID NO: 1 is T, and the presence and/or the absence of the following genetic feature: (2) homozygous or heterozygous for the allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 40 of SEQ ID NO: 2 is A.