Patent ID: 8748701

Claim:
A method of breeding a broccoli plant comprising: a. selecting a first parent broccoli plant, wherein said first parent broccoli plant is a plant of broccoli line BRM50-3905, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited with the American Type Culture Collection under ATCC Accession No. PTA-5198, and selecting a second parent broccoli plant having a characteristic selected from the group consisting of resistance to bacterial disease, resistance to fungal disease, resistance to viral disease, resistance to insects, and resistance to herbicide; b. crossing said first parent broccoli plant with said second parent broccoli plant to obtain progeny plant seed; c. growing said progeny plant seed into a third broccoli plant and selecting said third broccoli plant for said characteristic; and d. performing one or more backcrosses and selection for said characteristic to said first parent broccoli plant to develop a homozygous inbred broccoli plant line having said characteristic.