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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
May. 14, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Xingping Zhang, Woodland, CA (US);
Assignee:
Syngenta Participations AG, Basel, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01H 5/00 ; A01H 5/10 ; A01H 4/00 ; A01H 1/00 ; C12N 5/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01H 5/00 ; A01H 5/10 ; A01H 4/00 ; A01H 1/00 ; C12N 5/04 ;
Abstract
A tetraploid watermelon inbred 90-4194 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds and plants of tetraploid watermelon inbred 90-4194, the methods of propagating the tetraploid inbred 90-4194 through seeds and tissue culture. The invention also relates to methods of producing the triploid seedless watermelon seeds and plants by crossing inbred 90-4194 with diploid watermelon inbreds, and to the triploid plants produced therefrom. The invention further relates to the methods of developing new tetraploid lines by using tetraploid inbred 90-4194 as breeding material, and to tetraploid watermelon seeds and plants produced therefrom.