Patent ID: 11917962
Assignee: NUNHEMS B.V.
Field: Food chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 23:
24. A method for generating progeny of cucumber variety NUN 09103 CUL, said method comprising:
a. growing a plant from seeds deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 43517;
b. selfing said plant one or more times or crossing said plant one or more times with another cucumber plant to generate progeny seeds or generating double haploid (DH) lines from cucumber variety NUN 09103 CUL to generate DH progeny;
c. analyzing the fruits of plants grown from said progeny seeds or DH progeny for their average fruit seed cavity diameter and/or fruit shelf life compared to long cucumber variety Hi Power; and
d. identifying and/or selecting a progeny plant that produces fruits that have an average fruit seed cavity diameter of 38% to 47% of the total fruit diameter, and/or the average fruit seed cavity diameter of the fruits is reduced by at least 3% compared to the variety Hi Power, and/or the fruits, when cut, have a shelf life which is at least 1 or 2 days longer than the shelf life of fruits produced by long cucumber variety Hi Power.