US 12,439,869 B2
Spotted watermelon plants
Laura Barham Brown, Salinas, CA (US); and Robert Barham, Salinas, CA (US)
Assigned to Enza Zaden Beheer B.V., Enkhuizen (NL)
Filed by Enza Zaden Beheer B.V., Enkhuizen (NL)
Filed on Jun. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/849,401.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/214,697, filed on Jun. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0000035 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. A01H 6/34 (2018.01); A01H 1/04 (2006.01); A01H 5/08 (2018.01)
CPC A01H 6/342 (2018.05) [A01H 1/04 (2013.01); A01H 5/08 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
 
1. A method of producing a spotted watermelon plant, comprising:
a) crossing a spotted watermelon plant to a watermelon plant to produce a population of progeny watermelon plants;
b) genotyping the population of progeny watermelon plants for a presence of a marker linked to a spotted allele, wherein the spotted allele is located between position 134886 and position 86340 on Chromosome 4 of a ‘Charleston Gray’ genome;
wherein the marker comprises a first marker comprising a T at position 101 of SEQ ID NO: 1 and/or a second marker comprising a G at position 101 of SEQ ID NO: 6; and
c) selecting a progeny plant on the basis of the presence of the one or more sequences genotyped in (b), wherein the progeny watermelon plant is spotted.