Document Number: 20060168701
Abstract:
An enhanced, diploid pollenizer watermelon plant and method used to maximize the yield of triploid seedless watermelons per area. The enhanced pollenizer watermelon plant of the invention is either a hybrid variety, an open-pollinated variety or a synthetic variety, that exhibits the characteristics of small leaves and fruit with a brittle rind that splits when the fruit is overripe or breaks when relatively small physical forces are applied. The watermelon plant of the invention is also preferably characterized by extended flowering duration, thereby increasing the number of triploid watermelon flowers that are pollinated and set fruit. The method for producing a seedless watermelon fruit, includes the steps of providing a pollenizer diploid watermelon plant, extending the duration of flowering of the pollenizer plant while reducing the number of such plants needed to pollenize the same number of triploid watermelon plants, and maximizing dispersal of the pollenizer watermelon plant throughout the field of triploid watermelon plants.
Application Number: 11386656
Primary Class: 800308000
Sub-Classes: 435419000
Inventors: Xingping Zhang, Woodland, CA, US; Tom Williams, Naples, FL, US
Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
Attorney, Agent or Firm: SYNGENTA BIOTECHNOLOGY, INC.;PATENT DEPARTMENT, 3054 CORNWALLIS ROAD, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, 27709-2257, US
Continuation: US 10091154 (parent); US 10349509 (child)
Filing Date: 2006-03-22
Publication Date: 2006-07-27
PDF: 20060168701
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