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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1997
Xingping Zhang, Rocky Ford, CO (US);
Billy B Rhodes, Central, SC (US);
Clemson University, Clemson, SC (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for efficiently producing superior hybrid seed and plants. The method uses a genetic mechanism for ensuring high percentages of natural cross-pollination and combines this mechanism with a genetically conferred morphological trait that allows recognition of desirable genotypes at an early development stage. The genetic mechanism for ensuring high percentages of cross-pollination is male-sterile, a recessive genetic mutant. Thus, the method includes protocols for developing genetic male-sterile (ms) lines. The genetically conferred morphological trait that allows recognition of desirable genotypes at an early development stage is a seedling marker. Thus, the method includes protocols for developing genetic male-sterile (ms) lines with a seedling marker. In watermelon for example, the seedling marker can be a conditionally unfit mutant such as juvenile-albino (ja).