Melon hybrid SVMF5677

• US 10,638,695 B1
• Filed: 11/08/2018
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds Incorporated (Bayer AG)
• Original Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds Incorporated (Bayer AG)
• Inventors: Mills, Jeffrey M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Page, Brent T
• Application Number:
  US16/184,167
• Publication Number:
  US 20200146238A1
• Time in Patent Office: 544 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 5/08 Fruits
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 5/10 Seeds
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 6/344 Cucumis melo [melon]

Abstract

The invention provides seed and plants of melon hybrid SVMF5677. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of melon hybrid SVMF5677 and to methods for producing a melon plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another melon plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of melon hybrid SVMF5677, comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.

Claims

1. A melon plant of melon hybrid SVMF5677, a sample of seed of said hybrid having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-125339.

2. A melon seed that produces the plant of claim 1.

3. A plant part of the plant of claim 1, wherein the plant part comprises a cell of said plant.

4. A melon plant having all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of claim 1.

5. A tissue culture of regenerable cells of the plant of claim 1.

6. A melon plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 5, wherein said plant has all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of said melon hybrid SVMF5677.

7. A method of vegetatively propagating the melon plant of claim 1, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) collecting tissue capable of being propagated from the plant of claim 1; and

(b) propagating a melon plant from said tissue.

8. A method of producing a melon plant comprising an added trait, the method comprising introducing a transgene conferring the trait into the plant of claim 1.

9. A melon plant produced by the method of claim 8.

14. A method for producing a seed of a melon plant derived from melon hybrid SVMF5677, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) crossing the melon plant of claim 1 with itself or a second melon plant; and

(b) allowing seed of a hybrid SVMF5677-derived melon plant to form.

15. A method of producing a seed of a hybrid SVMF5677-derived melon plant, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) producing a hybrid SVMF5677-derived melon plant from a seed produced by crossing the melon plant of claim 1 with itself or a second melon plant; and

(b) crossing the hybrid SVMF5677-derived melon plant with itself or a different melon plant to obtain a seed of a further hybrid SVMF5677-derived melon plant.

16. The method of claim 15, the method further comprising repeating said producing and crossing steps of (a) and (b) using the seed from said step (b) for producing a plant according to step (a) for at least one generation to produce a seed of an additional hybrid SVMF5677-derived melon plant.

17. A method of producing a melon fruit, the method comprising:

(a) obtaining the plant of claim 1, wherein the plant has been cultivated to maturity; and

(b) collecting a melon fruit from the plant.

10. A melon plant of melon hybrid SVMF5677, a sample of seed of said hybrid having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-125339, further comprising a transgene.

11. The plant of claim 10, wherein the transgene confers a trait selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, pest resistance, disease resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, environmental stress tolerance, modified carbohydrate metabolism, and modified protein metabolism.

12. A melon plant of melon hybrid SVMF5677, a sample of seed of said hybrid having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-125339, further comprising a single locus conversion.

13. The plant of claim 12, wherein the single locus conversion confers a trait selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, pest resistance, disease resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, environmental stress tolerance, modified carbohydrate metabolism, and modified protein metabolism.