Hybrid sweet corn plant named SEABRIGHT

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12564155-B2
Application number	US-202318519974-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 27, 2023
Priority date	Nov 27, 2023
Publication date	Mar 3, 2026
Grant date	Mar 3, 2026

Abstract

A novel hybrid sweet corn plant, designated SEABRIGHT is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT, and to methods for producing a sweet corn plant by crossing the hybrid sweet corn SEABRIGHT with itself or another sweet corn plant.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A seed of hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT, wherein a representative sample of seed of said hybrid has been deposited under NCIMB No. 44418.

2 . A sweet corn plant, a part thereof, or a cell thereof, wherein the sweet corn plant produced by growing the seed of claim 1 has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT deposited under NCIMB No. 44418.

3 . The sweet corn plant, the part thereof, or the cell thereof of claim 2 , wherein the part is selected from the group consisting of a leaf, a flower, an ear, a kernel, a stalk, a root, a rootstock, a scion, a seed, an embryo, a peduncle, a stamen, an anther, a pistil, a pollen, an ovule, a meristem, and a cell.

4 . A tissue culture of regenerable cells produced from the sweet corn plant or the part thereof of claim 2 , wherein a sweet corn plant regenerated from the tissue culture has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT deposited under NCIMB No. 44418.

5 . A sweet corn plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 4 , said plant having all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT deposited under NCIMB No. 44418.

6 . A sweet corn ear produced from the plant of claim 2 .

7 . A method for harvesting a sweet corn ear, the method comprising: (a) growing the sweet corn plant of claim 2 to produce a sweet corn ear, and (b) harvesting said sweet corn ear.

8 . A sweet corn ear produced by the method of claim 7 .

9 . A method for producing a sweet corn seed, the method comprising: (a) crossing a first sweet corn plant with a second sweet corn plant and (b) harvesting the resultant sweet corn seed, wherein said first sweet corn plant and/or second sweet corn plant is the sweet corn plant of claim 2 .

10 . A method for producing a sweet corn seed, the method comprising: (a) self-pollinating the sweet corn plant of claim 2 and (b) harvesting the resultant sweet corn seed.

11 . A method of vegetatively propagating a sweet corn plant, the method comprising: (a) collecting a part capable of being propagated from the plant of claim 2 and (b) regenerating a plant from said part.

12 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising (c) harvesting an ear from said regenerated plant.

13 . A plant obtained from the method of claim 11 , wherein said plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT deposited under NCIMB No. 44418.

14 . An ear obtained from the method of claim 12 .

15 . A method of producing a sweet corn plant derived from hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT, the method comprising: (a) self-pollinating the plant of claim 2 at least once to produce a progeny plant.

16 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising the steps of:
(b) crossing the progeny plant derived from the hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT with itself or a second sweet corn plant to produce a seed of progeny plant of subsequent generation; (c) growing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation from the seed; (d) crossing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation with itself or a second sweet corn plant to produce a sweet corn plant derived from the hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT; and (e) repeating step (c) and/or (d) for at least one generation to produce a sweet corn plant derived from the hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT.

17 . A method of producing a sweet corn plant derived from hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT, the method comprising: (a) crossing the plant of claim 2 with a second sweet corn plant to produce a progeny plant.

18 . The method of claim 17 , further comprising the steps of:
(b) crossing the progeny plant derived from the hybrid sweet corn plant designated SEABRIGHT with itself or a second sweet corn plant to produce a seed of progeny plant of subsequent generation; (c) growing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation from the seed; (d) crossing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation with itself or a second sweet corn plant to produce a sweet corn plant derived from the sweet corn hybrid sweet corn plant designated SEABRIGHT; and (e) repeating step (b) and/or (c) to produce a sweet corn plant derived from the hybrid sweet corn plant designated SEABRIGHT.

19 . A method of producing a plant of hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT comprising at least one desired trait, the method comprising introducing a single locus conversion conferring the desired trait into hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT, whereby a plant of hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT comprising the desired trait is produced, wherein a representative sample of seed of said hybrid has been deposited under NCIMB No. 44418.

20 . A sweet corn plant, a part thereof, or a cell thereof, produced by the method of claim 19 , wherein the single locus conversion is introduced into the plant by genetic transformation or a genome editing technique, and wherein the plant, the part thereof, or the cell thereof comprises one single locus conversion and otherwise all of the characteristics of hybrid sweet corn designated SEABRIGHT deposited under NCIMB No. 44418.

21 . The plant of claim 20 , wherein the single locus conversion confers said plant with male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, disease resistance, water-stress tolerance, heat stress tolerance, increased shelf life, increased sweetness and flavor, enhanced nutritional quality, improved nutritional use efficiency, increased sugar content, delayed senescence or controlled ripening and/or improved salt tolerance.

22 . The plant of claim 20 , wherein the single locus conversion is introduced into the plant by a genome editing technique with a nuclease selected from the group consisting of Zinc finger nuclease (ZFN), Transcription Activation-Like Effector Nuclease (TALEN), CRISPR/Cas endonuclease, engineered meganuclease, engineered homing endonuclease, and RNA-guided nuclease.

23 . A method of producing a sweet corn plant, the method comprising grafting a rootstock or a scion of the hybrid sweet corn plant of claim 2 to another sweet corn plant.

24 . A method for producing nucleic acids, the method comprising isolating nucleic acids from the plant of claim 2 , or a part, or a cell thereof.

25 . A method for producing a second sweet corn plant, the method comprising applying plant breeding techniques to the plant or part of claim 2 to produce the second sweet corn plant.

Assignees

• Hm Clause Inc

Inventors

• Christensen Kenneth

Classifications

• A01H5/10 Primary

  Seeds · CPC title

• A01H6/4684 Primary

  Zea mays [maize] · CPC title