Hybrid melon variety 34-749 RZ

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10470386-B2
Application number	US-201715656224-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 21, 2017
Priority date	Aug 4, 2016
Publication date	Nov 12, 2019
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019

Abstract

The present invention relates to a Cucumis melo seed designated 34-749 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Cucumis melo plant produced by growing the 34-749 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the melon cultivar, represented by melon variety 34-749 RZ.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A melon ( Cucumis melo ) plant designated 34-749 RZ, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42760.

2. A seed capable of growing into the plant of claim 1 .

3. A part of the plant of claim 1 , wherein said part of the plant is suitable for sexual reproduction, and wherein said part comprises a microspore, pollen, an ovary, an ovule, an embryo sac, or an egg cell.

4. A part of the plant of claim 1 , wherein said part of the plant is suitable for vegetative reproduction.

5. The part as claimed in claim 4 , said part comprises a cutting, a root, a stem, a cell, or a protoplast.

6. A tissue culture of regenerable cells from the melon plant of claim 1 .

7. The cell or protoplast of claim 5 derived from a leaf, pollen, an embryo, a cotyledon, a hypocotyl, a meristematic cell, a root, a root tip, an anther, a flower, a seed, or a stem.

8. A method for producing a progeny plant of a melon ( Cucumis melo ) plant of claim 1 , comprising crossing the plant of claim 1 with itself or with another Cucumis melo plant, harvesting the resultant seed, and growing said seed.

9. A progeny plant of a melon ( Cucumis melo ) plant of claim 1 , wherein said progeny plant exhibits all the morphological and physiological characteristics as found in melon variety 34-749 RZ; representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42760.

10. A method of producing an inbred melon ( Cucumis melo ) plant derived from hybrid melon ( Cucumis melo ) variety 34-749 RZ, comprising the steps:
a) preparing a progeny plant derived from hybrid melon ( Cucumis melo ) variety 34-749RZ by crossing the plant of claim 1 with itself or a second Cucumis melo plant;
b) crossing the progeny plant with itself or a second Cucumis melo plant to produce a seed of a progeny plant of a subsequent generation;
c) growing a progeny plant of a subsequent generation from said seed and crossing the progeny plant of a subsequent generation with itself or a second Cucumis melo plant; and
d) repeating step b) or c) for at least 3 more generations to produce an inbred Cucumis melo plant derived from the hybrid melon ( Cucumis melo ) variety 34-749 RZ.

11. A method of producing a melon fruit comprising: (a) obtaining a plant according to claim 1 or the seed according to 2 , wherein the plant or the seed has been cultivated to develop fruit; and (b) collecting a melon fruit from the plant.

12. A fruit produced by the method of claim 11 , wherein the fruit comprises all the morphological and physiological characteristics of hybrid melon variety 34-749RZ.

13. The fruit of claim 12 , wherein the fruit is part of a food product, optionally in processed form.

14. A method for producing a seed of a 34-749 RZ-derived melon plant comprising:
(a) crossing a plant of melon variety 34-749 RZ, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42760, with itself or a second melon plant, and
(b) whereby seed of a 34-749 RZ-derived melon plant forms.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising:
(c) crossing a plant grown from 34-749 RZ-derived melon seed with itself or with a second melon plant to yield additional 34-749 RZ-derived melon seed,
(d) growing the additional 34-749 RZ-derived melon seed of step (c) to yield additional 34-749 RZ-derived melon plants, and
(e) repeating the crossing and growing of steps (c) and (d) for an additional -10generations to generate further 34-749 RZ-derived melon plants.

16. A method of determining the genotype of a plant of melon variety 34-749 RZ, representative seed of which has been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42760, or a first generation progeny thereof, comprising:
obtaining a sample of nucleic acids from said plant and comparing said nucleic acids to a sample of nucleic acids obtained from a reference plant, and
detecting a plurality of polymorphisms between the two nucleic acid samples,
wherein the plurality of polymorphisms are indicative of melon ( Cucumis melo ) variety 34-749 RZ and/or give rise to the expression of any one or more, or all, of the morphological and physiological characteristics of melon ( Cucumis melo ) variety 34-749 RZ as claimed in claim 1 .

17. The method of claim 16 additionally comprising the step of storing the results of detecting the plurality of polymorphisms on a computer readable medium, or transmitting the results of detecting the plurality of polymorphisms.

18. The melon plant of claim 1 , which is a plant grown from seed deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42760.

19. A melon fruit of hybrid melon variety 34-749 RZ, wherein the fruit comprises all the morphological and physiological characteristics of hybrid melon variety 34-749RZ.

Assignees

• Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt En Zaadhandel Bv

Inventors

• Deniau Antoine Xavier
• Collin Laurence Catherine
• Van Den Ende Albertus Cornelius Maria

Classifications

• C12Q1/6895

  for plants, fungi or algae · CPC title

• A23L29/00

  Foods or foodstuffs containing additives (containing additives for modifying the nutritive qualities A23L33/10; containing substantially indigestive additives, e.g. dietary fibres, A23L33/21; containing additives for preservation A23B); Preparation or treatment thereof · CPC title

• C12Q2600/13

  Plant traits · CPC title

• A23L19/03

  consisting of whole pieces or fragments without mashing the original pieces · CPC title

• C12N15/8241

  Phenotypically and genetically modified plants via recombinant DNA technology · CPC title