Patent ID: 8502019

Claim:
A method for producing a hybrid seed product of a bee-pollinated crop, from a cross between female plants from at least one female line and pollenizer plants from at least one pollenizer line, the hybrid seed product having a percentage of hybridity above a predetermined percentage of hybridity, the method comprising: (a) selecting the at least one female line and the at least one pollenizer line to have a seed size differential between seed of the female plants and seed of the pollenizer plants; (b) planting the at least one female line and the at least one pollenizer line in a production ratio in a production field such that the at least one female line and the at least one pollenizer lines are crossed to obtain the total seed product comprising hybrid seed and non-hybrid seed, wherein the hybrid seed and non-hybrid seed in the production seed each have a seed size distribution and the seed size distributions overlap by less than twenty-five percent of the production seed; and (c) removing at least a portion of the non-hybrid seed from the hybrid seed to achieve a post-production increase of percentage of hybridity and obtain the hybrid seed product having a percentage of hybridity above the predetermined percentage of hybridity.