Patent Document ID: 10143174
Application ID: 15074566
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of producing a seedless pepper plant, the method comprising: a) providing a seed of an F1 hybrid Capsicum annuum pepper fruit made by crossing a seedless male-sterile C. annuum pepper plant as a female line and a seed-bearing male-fertile C. annuum pepper plant as a male line, wherein said seedless male-sterile C. annuum pepper plant used as a female line comprises a seedless trait and grows seedless pepper fruits independent of the pollination and fertilization process, and wherein the seedless trait is controlled by a genetic determinant and is independent of exogenous treatment with parthenocarpy-inducing plant hormones, and wherein the seed of the F1 hybrid C. annuum pepper is selected from the group consisting of hybrid pepper seed designated AR07-F1-166-b, AR07-F1-56-b, AR07-F1-87-b, AR07-F1-171-X, and AR07-F1-172-X; representative seeds of said hybrid peppers deposited with NCIMB, Aberdeen AB21 9YA, Scotland, UK under accession numbers NCIMB 41560, NCIMB 41558, NCIMB 41559, NCIMB 41561 and NCIMB 41562, respectively; b) germinating the seed of an F1 hybrid pepper fruit of (a) and growing a mature, fertile pepper plant therefrom; c) inducing self-pollination of the pepper plant grown in (b), allowing a seed-bearing pepper fruit to form, and harvesting fertile seed therefrom, and d) growing pepper plants from the harvested seed of c) and selecting a pepper plant that grows seedless pepper fruits.