Patent ID: 11963496
Assignee: NUNHEMS B.V.
Field: Food chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 25:
26. A method of producing a modified watermelon plant having a desired trait, wherein the method comprises mutating the plant of claim 1 or part thereof, and selecting a plant with the desired trait, wherein the mutated plant contains the desired trait and otherwise retains all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of variety NUN 11802 WMW, when the numerical characteristics are determined at the 5% significance level and identical for non-numerical characteristics for plants grown under the same environmental conditions, wherein a representative sample of seed of said watermelon variety has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 43701, and wherein the desired trait is male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, pest resistance, disease resistance, environmental stress tolerance, modified carbohydrate metabolism, or modified protein metabolism.