Patent ID: 8957286
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: A01H

Abstract:
1. A method of producing a Capsicum annuum variety capable of bearing commercially acceptable seedless fruits stably over several generations by backcrossing, wherein a C. annuum plant of a male sterile variety having a genetically determined parthenocarpic trait is backcrossed with a recurrent C. annuum plant of a fixed homozygous parthenocarpic line which is capable of bearing commercially acceptable seedless fruits and sustaining the genetically determined parthenocarpic trait and the genetically determined male sterile trait of the C. annuum plant, wherein said fixed line is used as a pollen parent and wherein the male sterile C. annuum plant is backcrossed to said fixed homozygous line as the recurrent parent at least one time, to thereby produce a