Patent ID: 7428875

Claim:
A process for producing a transformable plant for use in molecular farming with traceable seeds having a visual characteristic feature, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a desirable first cultivar for expression and accumulation of a heterologous protein in its seeds or any part thereof, wherein said cultivar is amenable for plant transformation and plant regeneration through tissue culture, and (b) providing a second cultivar with seeds that have a visual characteristic feature such that seeds of said cultivar are visually substantially different from the seeds of common agricultural or wild cultivars of the same species that grow in the geographic region intended for growing said transformed plant, (c) crossing said second cultivar with said first cultivar to yield a hybrid line, (d) back-crossing said hybrid line with said first cultivar to obtain hybrid plants, the genome of which are substantially comprised of the genome of said first cultivar, and have seeds with the same visual characteristic feature as seeds in said second cultivar, (e) selecting from said hybrid plants a host hybrid line which retains the characteristics of said first cultivar making it amenable for plant transformation and plant regeneration.