Lettuce variety 41-342 RZ

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9814211-B2
Application number	US-201615145021-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 3, 2016
Priority date	May 18, 2015
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

Abstract

The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 41-342 RZ, which exhibits a combination of traits including resistance to downy mildew ( Bremia lactucae ) races Bl:1 to Bl:12, Bl:17, Bl:18, Bl:22, Bl:24, Bl:25, Bl:28-Bl:30, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid ( Nasonovia ribisnigri ) biotype Nr:0, resistance to Lettuce Mosaic Virus (LMV) race LMV:1, as well as very thick mature leaves and a small head size. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 41-342 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 41-342 RZ.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A lettuce plant designated 41-342 RZ, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42410, wherein said plant comprises at least the following combination of traits including resistance to downy mildew ( Bremia lactucae ) races Bl:1 to Bl:12, Bl:17, Bl:18, Bl:22, Bl:24, Bl:25, Bl:28-Bl:30, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid ( Nasonovia ribisnigri ) biotype Nr:0, resistance to Lettuce Mosaic Virus (LMV) race LMV:1, as well as very thick mature leaves and a small head size.

2. A seed of 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.

4. The part of the plant as claimed in claim 3 , wherein said part comprises a microspore, pollen, ovary, ovule, embryo sac or egg cell.

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

6. The part of the plant as claimed in claim 5 , wherein said part comprises a cutting, root, stem, cell or protoplast.

7. A tissue culture of regenerable cells or protoplasts from the lettuce plant of claim 1 .

8. The tissue culture as claimed in claim 7 , wherein said cells or protoplasts of the tissue culture are derived from a from a tissue comprising a leaf, pollen, embryo, cotyledon, hypocotyl, meristematic cell, root, root tip, anther, flower, seed or stem.

9. A method for producing a progeny plant of a lettuce plant of claim 1 , comprising crossing the plant of claim 1 with itself or with another lettuce plant, harvesting the resultant seed, and growing said seed.

10. A progeny plant produced by the method of claim 9 , wherein said progeny exhibits a combination of traits including resistance to downy mildew ( Bremia lactucae ) races Bl:1 to Bl:12, Bl:17, Bl:18, Bl:22, Bl:24, Bl:25, Bl:28-Bl:30, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid ( Nasonovia ribisnigri ) biotype Nr:0, resistance to Lettuce Mosaic Virus (LMV) race LMV:1, as well as very thick mature leaves and a small head size.

11. The progeny plant as claimed in claim 10 , wherein said progeny plant is modified in one or more other characteristics.

12. The progeny plant as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the modification is effected by mutagenesis.

13. The progeny plant as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the modification is effected by transformation with a transgene.

14. A progeny plant produced by the method of claim 9 , wherein said progeny plant has all the morphological and physiological characteristics of the lettuce plant designated 41-342 RZ, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42410.

15. A method of producing a hybrid lettuce seed comprising crossing a first parent lettuce plant with a second parent lettuce plant and harvesting the resultant hybrid lettuce seed, wherein said first parent lettuce plant or said second parent lettuce plant is the lettuce plant of claim 1 .

16. A hybrid lettuce seed produced by the method of claim 15 .

17. A hybrid lettuce plant grown from the seed of claim 16 .

18. A method for producing lettuce leaves as a fresh vegetable comprising packaging leaves of a plant of claim 1 .

19. A method for producing lettuce leaves as a processed food comprising processing leaves of a plant of claim 1 .

20. A container comprising one or more lettuce plants of claim 1 for harvest of leaves.

21. A method of determining the genotype of a plant of lettuce variety 41-342 RZ, representative seed of which has been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42410, 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 lettuce variety 41-342 RZ and/or give rise to the expression of any one or more, or all, of the morphological and physiological characteristics of lettuce variety 41-342 RZ as claimed in claim 1 .

22. The method of claim 21 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.

23. The lettuce plant of claim 1 , which is grown from seed having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42410.

24. A lettuce plant having all the morphological and physiological characteristics of the lettuce plant as claimed in claim 1 .

25. A method of producing a lettuce cultivar exhibiting a combination of traits including resistance to downy mildew ( Bremia lactucae ) races Bl:1 to Bl:12, Bl:17, Bl:18, Bl:22, Bl:24, Bl:25, Bl:28-Bl:30, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid ( Nasonovia ribisnigri ) biotype Nr:0, resistance to Lettuce Mosaic Virus (LMV) race LMV:1, as well as very thick mature leaves and a small head size, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42410, comprising:
crossing a mother lettuce plant with a father lettuce plant to produce a hybrid seed; growing said hybrid seed to produce a hybrid plant;
selfing said hybrid plant to produce F2 progeny seed; growing said F2 progeny seed to produce F2-plants;
selecting said F2-plants for exhibiting resistance to downy mildew ( Bremia lactucae ) races Bl:1 to Bl:12, Bl:17, Bl:18, Bl:22, Bl:24, Bl:25, Bl:28-Bl:30, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid ( Nasonovia ribisnigri ) biotype Nr:0, resistance to Lettuce Mosaic Virus (LMV) race LMV:1, as well as very thick mature leaves and a small head size, and,
selfing said selected F2-plants to produce F3 progeny seed;
growing said F3 progeny seed to produce F3-plants; selecting F3-plants for exhibiting resistance to downy mildew ( Bremia lactucae ) races Bl:1 to Bl:12, Bl:17, Bl:18, Bl:22, Bl:24, Bl:25, Bl:28-Bl:30, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid ( Nasonovia ribisnigri ) biotype Nr:0, resistance to Lettuce Mosaic Virus (LMV) race LMV:1, as well as very thick mature leaves and a small head size, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42410, optionally followed by more selfing and selection steps.

26. A lettuce cultivar produced by the method of claim 25 .

27. A lettuce plant having resistance to downy mildew ( Bremia lactucae ) races Bl:1 to Bl:12, Bl:17, Bl:18, Bl:22, Bl:24, Bl:25, Bl:28-Bl:30, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid ( Nasonovia ribisnigri ) biotype Nr:0, resistance to Lettuce Mosaic Virus (LMV) race LMV:1, as well as very thick mature leaves and a small head size and other morphological and/or physiological characteristics of a lettuce plant, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42410.

28. A method of introducing a desired trait into a plant of lettuce variety 41-342 RZ comprising:
(a) crossing a plant of lettuce variety 41-342 RZ, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42410, with a second lettuce plant that comprises the 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 lettuce variety 41-342 RZ, to produce backcross progeny and
(d) selecting backcross progeny comprising the desired trait and physiological and morphological characteristics of a plant of lettuce

Assignees

• Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt En Zaadhandel Bv

Inventors

• Garcia Maria Tomas

Classifications

• C12Q1/6895

  for plants, fungi or algae · CPC title

• C12Q2600/156

  Polymorphic or mutational markers · CPC title

• C12Q2600/13

  Plant traits · CPC title

• A01H5/12 Primary

  Leaves · CPC title

• A23L19/03

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