US 12,356,909 B2
Tomato plants with improved traits
Harriette C. Aarden, South Holland (NL); Bernardus van den Bosch, Zoetermeer (NL); Bart Willem Brugmans, Beek en Donk (NL); Benjamin C. Hunter, Zuid-Holland (NL); Rose Iris R. Rehrig, Marina, CA (US); Maria F. Rodriguez, St. Paul, MN (US); Bram Rozier, Zuid-Holland (NL); Alberto Vecchietti, Milan (IT); and Ruth A. Wagner, Chesterfield, MO (US)
Assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed by Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed on Apr. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/224,021.
Application 17/224,021 is a division of application No. 16/239,405, filed on Jan. 3, 2019, granted, now 11,001,851.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/613,617, filed on Jan. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0324395 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A01H 5/08 (2018.01); A01H 1/00 (2006.01); A01H 1/04 (2006.01); A01H 6/82 (2018.01)
CPC A01H 1/04 (2013.01) [A01H 1/00 (2013.01); A01H 5/08 (2013.01); A01H 6/825 (2018.05)] 3 Claims
 
1. A Solanum lycopersicum plant comprising a recombinant chromosomal segment on chromosome 1, wherein said chromosomal segment comprises an introgressed BRIX allele found in S. pennellii line LA0716 conferring increased BRIX to the fruit of said plant compared to the fruit of a plant not comprising said allele, wherein said chromosomal segment lacks a deleterious allele genetically linked to said BRIX allele that confers necrosis to said plant when present, and wherein said chromosomal segment is found in S. pennellii line LA0716 and is flanked by marker locus M3 having SEQ ID NO:11 or marker locus M4 having SEQ ID NO:16 and a marker locus selected from the group consisting of marker locus M5 having SEQ ID NO:21, marker locus M6 having SEQ ID NO:26, marker locus M7 having SEQ ID NO:31, marker locus M8 having SEQ ID NO:36, marker locus M9 having SEQ ID NO:41, and marker locus M12 having SEQ ID NO:56.