Sweet pepper hybrid 9954288

• US 8,013,222 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2009
• Issued: 09/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds Incorporated (Bayer AG)
• Original Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds Incorporated (Bayer AG)
• Inventors: McCarthy, William
• Primary Examiner(s): Fox; David T
• Application Number:
  US12/419,124
• Publication Number:
  US 20090255011A1
• Time in Patent Office: 883 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 800/317.1
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 5/08 Fruits
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 6/822 Capsicum sp. [pepper]

Abstract

The invention provides seed and plants of pepper varieties designated 9954288, SBR 99-1274 and SBY 99-1273. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of sweet pepper hybrid 9954288, pepper line SBR 99-1274 and pepper line SBY 99-1273, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing a plant with itself or with another pepper plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of the invention, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.

Claims

1. A pepper plant comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of pepper line SBR 99-1274 or pepper line SBY 99-1273, a sample of seed of said lines having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-8689, and ATCC Accession Number PTA-9229, respectively.

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

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

5. The plant of claim 4, wherein the hybrid plant is pepper hybrid 9954288, a sample of seed of said hybrid 9954288 having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-8690.

6. The plant of claim 3, wherein the inbred plant is a plant of line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273.

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

8. The plant part of claim 7, further defined as a leaf, a ovule, pollen, a fruit, or a cell.

9. A pepper plant, or a part thereof, having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the pepper plant of claim 5.

10. A pepper plant, or a part thereof, having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the pepper plant of claim 6.

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

12. The tissue culture according to claim 11, 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.

13. A pepper plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 12, wherein the plant has all the physiological and morphological characteristics of a pepper plant comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of pepper line SBR 99-1274 or pepper line SBY 99-1273, a sample of seed of said lines having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-8689, and ATCC Accession Number PTA-9229, respectively.

14. 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.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising growing at least a first plant from said rooted plantlets.

20. A method of determining the genotype of the plant of claim 1 comprising obtaining a sample of nucleic acids from said plant and detecting in said nucleic acids a plurality of polymorphisms.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising the step of storing the results of detecting the plurality of polymorphisms on a computer readable medium.

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

34. A method of producing a pepper fruit comprising:

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

(b) collecting a pepper from the plant.

35. The method of claim 34, wherein the plant according to claim 1 is a plant of pepper hybrid 9954288, a sample of seed of said hybrid 9954288 having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-8690.

2. A seed comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of pepper line SBR 99-1274 or pepper line SBY 99-1273, a sample of seed of said lines having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-8689, and ATCC Accession Number PTA-9229, respectively.

16. A method of introducing a desired trait into a pepper line comprising:

(a) utilizing as a recurrent parent a plant of either pepper line SBR 99-1274 or pepper line SBY 99-1273, by crossing a plant of line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273, a sample of seed of said lines having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-8689, and ATCC Accession Number PTA-9229, respectively, with a second donor pepper plant that comprises a desired trait, to produce F₁ progeny;

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

(c) crossing the selected F₁ progeny with a plant of the same pepper line used as the recurrent parent in step (a) [line SBR 99-1274 or SBY 99-1273] to produce backcross progeny;

(d) selecting backcross progeny comprising the desired trait and the physiological and morphological characteristics of the recurrent parent pepper line used in step (a) [pepper line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273]; and

(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny that comprise the desired trait, and otherwise comprise essentially all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the recurrent parent pepper line used in step (a).

17. A pepper plant produced by the method of claim 16.

18. A method of producing a plant comprising an added trait, the method comprising introducing a transgene conferring the trait into a plant of hybrid 9954288, line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273, a sample of seed of said hybrid and lines having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-8690, ATCC Accession Number PTA-8689, and ATCC Accession Number PTA-9229, respectively.

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

22. A method for producing a seed of a plant derived from at least one of hybrid 9954288, line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273 comprising the steps of:

(a) crossing a pepper plant of hybrid 9954288, line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273 with itself or a second pepper plant;

a sample of seed of said hybrid and lines having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-8690, ATCC Accession Number PTA-8689, and ATCC Accession Number PTA-9229, respectively; and

(b) allowing seed of a hybrid 9954288, line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273-derived pepper plant to form.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising the steps of:

(c) selfing a plant grown from said hybrid 9954288, line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273-derived pepper seed to yield additional hybrid 9954288, line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273-derived pepper seed;

(d) growing said additional hybrid 9954288, line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273-derived pepper seed of step (c) to yield additional hybrid 9954288, line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273-derived pepper plants; and

(e) repeating the crossing and growing steps of (c) and (d) to generate at least a first further hybrid 9954288, line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273-derived pepper plant.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the second pepper plant is of an inbred pepper line.

25. The method of claim 22, comprising crossing line SBR 99-1274 with line SBY 99-1273, a sample of seed of said lines having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-8689, and ATCC Accession Number PTA-9229, respectively.

26. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

(f) crossing the further hybrid 9954288, line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273-derived pepper plant with a second pepper plant to produce seed of a hybrid progeny plant.

27. A hybrid seed produced by the method of claim 25.

28. A plant produced by growing the seed of claim 27.

29. A plant part of the plant of claim 28.

30. The plant part of claim 29, further defined as a leaf, a flower, a fruit, an ovule, pollen, or a cell.

31. The seed of claim 27, wherein one or both of the plant of line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273 and the second plant comprises a transgene.

32. The seed of claim 27, wherein one or both of the plant of line SBR 99-1274 or line SBY 99-1273 and the second plant comprises a single locus conversion.