MELON HYBRID DRT 1914 AND PARENTS THEREOF

• US 20140150127A1
• Filed: 11/26/2012
• Published: 05/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds Incorporated (Bayer AG)
• Original Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds Incorporated (Bayer AG)
• Inventors: CHAMBEYRON, DOMINIQUE
• Application Number:
  US13/685,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20140150127A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 800/260
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 5/08 Fruits
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 6/344 Cucumis melo [melon]

Abstract

The invention provides seed and plants of melon hybrid DRT 1914 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of melon hybrid DRT 1914 and the parent lines thereof, 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 parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.

Claims

1. A melon plant comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of melon line CHA 38-PENNY AN, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13138.

3. The plant of claim 1, which is inbred.

4. The plant of claim 1, which is hybrid.

7. The plant of claim 4, wherein the hybrid plant is melon hybrid DRT 1914, a sample of seed of said hybrid DRT 1914 having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13139.

10. A plant part of the plant of claim 1.

11. The plant part of claim 10, further defined as a leaf, an ovule, pollen, a fruit, or a cell.

12. A melon plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the melon plant of claim 7.

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

14. The tissue culture according to claim 13, comprising cells or protoplasts from a plant part selected from the group consisting of embryos, meristems, cotyledons, pollen, leaves, anthers, roots, root tips, pistil, flower, seed and stalks.

15. A melon plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 13.

16. A method of vegetatively propagating the plant of claim 1 comprising the steps of:

(a) collecting tissue capable of being propagated from a plant according to claim 1;

(b) cultivating said tissue to obtain proliferated shoots; and

(c) rooting said proliferated shoots to obtain rooted plantlets.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising growing at least a first plant from said rooted plantlets.

22. The plant of claim 1, comprising a transgene.

23. The plant of claim 22, 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.

24. The plant of claim 1, comprising a single locus conversion.

25. The plant of claim 24, 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.

30. A plant part of the plant of claim 7.

31. The plant part of claim 30, further defined as a leaf, a flower, a fruit, an ovule, pollen, or a cell.

32. A method of producing a melon seed comprising crossing the plant of claim 1 with itself or a second melon plant and allowing seed to form.

33. A method of producing a melon fruit comprising:

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

(b) collecting a melon from the plant.

2. A seed comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of melon line CHA 38-PENNY AN, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13138.

5. The seed of claim 2, which is inbred.

6. The seed of claim 2, which is hybrid.

8. The seed of claim 6, defined as a seed of melon hybrid DRT 1914, a sample of seed of said hybrid DRT 1914 having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13139.

9. The seed of claim 2, defined as a seed of line CHA 38-PENNY AN.

18. A method of introducing a desired trait into a melon line comprising:

(a) crossing a plant of line CHA 38-PENNY AN with a second melon plant that comprises a desired trait to produce F1 progeny, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13138;

(b) selecting an F1 progeny that comprises the desired trait;

(c) backcrossing the selected F1 progeny with a plant of line CHA 38-PENNY AN to produce backcross progeny;

(d) selecting backcross progeny comprising the desired trait and the physiological and morphological characteristic of melon line CHA 38-PENNY AN; and

(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny that comprise the desired trait.

19. A melon plant produced by the method of claim 18.

20. A method of producing a plant comprising an added trait, the method comprising introducing a transgene conferring the trait into a plant of hybrid DRT 1914 or line CHA 38-PENNY AN, a sample of seed of said hybrid and line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13139 and ATCC Accession Number PTA-13138, respectively.

21. A plant produced by the method of claim 20.

26. A method for producing a seed of a plant derived from at least one of hybrid DRT 1914 or line CHA 38-PENNY AN comprising the steps of:

(a) crossing a melon plant of hybrid DRT 1914 or line CHA 38-PENNY AN with itself or a second melon plant;

a sample of seed of said hybrid and line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13139 and ATCC Accession Number PTA-13138, respectively; and

(b) allowing seed of a hybrid DRT 1914 or line CHA 38-PENNY AN-derived melon plant to form.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising the steps of:

(c) selfing a plant grown from said hybrid DRT 1914 or CHA 38-PENNY AN-derived melon seed to yield additional hybrid DRT 1914 or line CHA 38-PENNY AN-derived melon seed;

(d) growing said additional hybrid DRT 1914 or line CHA 38-PENNY AN-derived melon seed of step (c) to yield additional hybrid DRT 1914 or line CHA 38-PENNY AN-derived melon plants; and

(e) repeating the crossing and growing steps of (c) and (d) to generate at least a first further hybrid DRT 1914 or line CHA 38-PENNY AN-derived melon plant.

28. The method of claim 26, wherein the second melon plant is of an inbred melon line.

29. The method of claim 27, further comprising:

(f) crossing the further hybrid DRT 1914 or CHA 38-PENNY AN-derived melon plant with a second melon plant to produce seed of a hybrid progeny plant.