	US 12,391,953 B2
	Stevia plant having less ability to form pollens
Tadayoshi Hirai, Kyoto (JP); Kazunari Iwaki, Kanagawa (JP); and Kentaro Ochiai, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED, Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/601,596
Filed by SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED, Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 7, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/015729 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 5, 2021, PCT Pub. No. WO2020/209266, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 15, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-075611 (JP), filed on Apr. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0177901 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. C12N 15/82 (2006.01); A01H 1/02 (2006.01); A01H 1/04 (2006.01); A23L 27/00 (2016.01)

CPC C12N 15/8231 (2013.01) [A01H 1/023 (2021.01); A01H 1/045 (2021.01); A23L 27/00 (2016.08)]

12 Claims

1. A Stevia plant, wherein the plant is heterozygous or homozygous for an allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 79 of SEQ ID NO: 151 is C, is heterozygous or homozygous for an allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 65 of SEQ ID NO: 152 is T, and/or the plant is heterozygous or homozygous for an allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 24 of SEQ ID NO: 153 is T, wherein the Stevia plant produces less pollen than a Stevia plant that does not comprise one or more of the alleles.