US 12,268,144 B2
Melon plants with maturity indicator
Rakesh Kumar, Woodland, CA (US); Marc Oliver, Saint-Sauveur (FR); and Jose Ignacio Alvarez Casanueva, Almeria (ES)
Assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Basel (CH)
Filed by Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Basel (CH)
Filed on Jul. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/347,720.
Application 18/347,720 is a continuation of application No. 18/032,046, previously published as PCT/EP2021/079608, filed on Oct. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/115,774, filed on Nov. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/107,114, filed on Oct. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0329176 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. A01H 5/08 (2018.01); A01H 1/00 (2006.01); A01H 6/34 (2018.01)
CPC A01H 6/344 (2018.05) [A01H 1/00 (2013.01); A01H 1/106 (2021.01); A01H 5/08 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
 
1. A cultivated melon plant having a long shelf-life phenotype comprising in its genome:
at least one copy of an introgressed sequence from Cucumis melo var. dudaim conferring a rind-turning phenotype, located on chromosome 6, mapped between position 25115792 bp in the public reference genome v CM3.5.1 and position 30769753 bp in the public reference genome v CM3.5.1, and comprising the following flanking SNP markers:
i) SEQ ID NO: 1 comprising an A genotype in the heterozygous or homozygous state for SNP marker 1 at a position corresponding to position 61 in SEQ ID NO: 1; and
ii) SEQ ID NO: 46 comprising a C genotype in the heterozygous or homozygous state for SNP marker 10 at a position corresponding to position 196 in SEQ ID NO: 46;
wherein said introgressed sequence is comprised in melon line 19MNA106815, representative seed of which is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-126875, or a progeny thereof; and
wherein said cultivated melon plant produces melon fruit exhibiting a long shelf-life phenotype, wherein said long shelf-life phenotype is characterized by fruits that do not form an abscission layer at maturity, wherein said melon fruit further exhibits a rind-turning phenotype when reaching full maturity, and wherein said rind-turning phenotype is characterized by a rind colour turning from green when immature into yellow when reaching full maturity.