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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2012
Jacobus Petrus Cornelis DE Wit, Oudenbosch, NL;
Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Roosendaal, NL;
Joannes Wilhelmus Schut, Wouw, NL;
Petrus Lambertus Josephus Egelmeers, Oud Gastel, NL;
Robert Helene Ghislain Dirks, Oudenbosch, NL;
Jacobus Petrus Cornelis De Wit, Oudenbosch, NL;
Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Roosendaal, NL;
Joannes Wilhelmus Schut, Wouw, NL;
Petrus Lambertus Josephus Egelmeers, Oud Gastel, NL;
Robert Helene Ghislain Dirks, Oudenbosch, NL;
Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt en Zaadhandel B.V., De Lier, NL;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a for obtaining a plant showing a reduced susceptibility towards infection with a pathogen, in particular an oomycete, comprising treating MO seeds of a plant species to be modified with a mutagenic agent to obtain M1 seeds and growing plants therefrom the thus obtained M1 seeds to obtain M1 plants, inoculation of the thus obtained M1+n plants with the pathogen and selecting plants that show a reduction or absence of sporulation of the pathogen as plants having a reduced susceptibility phenotype. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, pollen, cells and tissues that have the reduced susceptibility towards oomycetes.