	US 12,116,587 B2
	Pepper plants with improved disease resistance
Jonathan Tyler Eckard, Richmond, CA (US); Patrick Hogan, St. Louis, MO (US); Carl Martin Jones, Sacramento, CA (US); Brian J. Just, Fort Myers, FL (US); Joel Kniskern, Sacramento, CA (US); and Jae Hyoung You, St. Louis, MO (US)
Assigned to SENUBUS VEGETABKE SEEDS, INC., St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed by Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed on Oct. 20, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/075,588.
Application 17/075,588 is a continuation of application No. 15/836,610, filed on Dec. 8, 2017, granted, now 10,858,667.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/436,299, filed on Dec. 19, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0102219 A1, Apr. 8, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. C12N 15/82 (2006.01); A01H 5/08 (2018.01); A01H 6/82 (2018.01)

CPC C12N 15/8282 (2013.01) [A01H 5/08 (2013.01); A01H 6/822 (2018.05); C12N 15/821 (2013.01)]

10 Claims

1. A method for selecting a pepper plant of a cultivated variety exhibiting resistance to Phytophthora capsici comprising:

a) detecting in said plant a Phytophthora capsici resistance enhancing allele on chromosome 6, wherein said allele is flanked in the genome of said plant by marker locus SNPmarker_1 (SEQ ID NO: 8) and marker locus SNPmarker_2 (SEQ ID NO: 9), and wherein said Phytophthora capsici resistance enhancing allele confers to said plant improved resistance to Phytophthora capsici relative to a plant lacking said allele; and

b) selecting a pepper plant comprising said Phytophthora capsici resistance enhancing allele.