Watermelon variety NUN 31208 WMW

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9955638-B2
Application number	US-201514717372-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 20, 2015
Priority date	May 20, 2015
Publication date	May 1, 2018
Grant date	May 1, 2018

Abstract

The invention relates to the field of Citrullus lanatus , in particular to a new variety of watermelon designated NUN 31208 WMW as well as plants, seeds and watermelon fruits thereof.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A plant, plant part or seed of watermelon variety NUN 31208 WMW, wherein representative seed of said variety has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 42970.

2. A plant or part thereof grown from the seed of claim 1 .

3. The plant part of claim 2 , further defined as a leaf, pollen, an ovule, a fruit, a scion, a rootstock, cutting, flower or a part of any of these or a cell.

4. A tissue or cell culture of regenerable cells of the plant of claim 2 .

5. The tissue or cell culture according to claim 4 , comprising cells or protoplasts from a plant part selected from the group consisting of embryos, meristems, cotyledons, hypocotyl, pollen, leaves, anthers, roots, root tips, pistil, petiole, flower, fruit, seed, stem and stalks.

6. A watermelon plant regenerated from the tissue or cell culture of claim 4 , wherein the plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of claim 2 when determined at the 5% significance level for plants grown under the same environmental conditions.

7. A method of producing of the plant of claim 2 , or a part thereof, comprising vegetative propagation of the plant of claim 2 .

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein said vegetative propagation comprises regenerating a whole plant from a plant part of watermelon variety NUN 31208 WMW, wherein representative seed of said variety has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 42970.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein said part is a cutting, a cell culture or a tissue culture.

10. A vegetative propagated plant, propagated from the plant part of claim 2 , or a part said propagated plant, wherein the plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of claim 2 when determined at the 5% significance level for plants grown under the same environmental conditions.

11. A food or feed product comprising the plant part of claim 3 .

12. A plant, plant part or seed of watermelon variety NUN 31208 WMW, wherein a representative sample of seed of said variety has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 42970, and wherein said plant, plant part or seed comprises a single locus conversion, but otherwise has all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of NUN 31208 WMW when grown under the same environmental conditions, optionally wherein the single locus conversion confers a trait selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, pest resistance, disease resistance, environmental stress tolerance, modified carbohydrate metabolism and modified protein metabolism.

13. A plant comprising the scion or rootstock of claim 3 .

14. A method of making doubled haploids of the plant of watermelon variety NUN 31208 WMW, wherein a representative sample of seed of said variety has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 42970 comprising the step of making double haploid cells from haploid cells from the plant of claim 10 or a seed of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Nunhems Bv

Inventors

• Chang Yen Ming

Classifications

• A01H1/02

  Methods or apparatus for hybridisation; Artificial pollination {; Fertility} · CPC title

• A01H4/00

  Plant reproduction by tissue culture techniques {; Tissue culture techniques therefor} · CPC title

• A01H5/08 Primary

  Fruits · CPC title

• A01H6/342 Primary

  Citrullus lanatus [watermelon] · CPC title