Patent ID: 8742206

Claim:
A Spinacia oleracea (spinach) plant having genetic information for expressing a multileaf trait that segregates in the F2 population in a fashion that fits with recessive inheritance such that when the spinach plant is homozygous as to the genetic information, the spinach plant expresses the multileaf trait wherein, under the same environmental conditions, at the vegetative plant stage, in that F2 population, the spinach plant expressing the multileaf trait grows at least 1.25 times as many leaves as another spinach plant of that same population that is not homozygous as to the genetic information for expressing the multileaf trait, wherein the genetic information for expressing the multileaf trait is as in a multileaf trait spinach, representative seed having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. NCIMB 41619.