US-12622405-B2 - Hybrid pepper plant named CAPTAIN

Abstract

A hybrid pepper plant designated CAPTAIN is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of pepper hybrid CAPTAIN, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid pepper CAPTAIN, and to methods for producing a pepper plant by crossing the hybrid pepper CAPTAIN with itself or another pepper plant.

Inventors

• Ariadna MONROY

Assignees

• HM.CLAUSE, INC.

Dates

Publication Date

20260512

Application Date

20231120

Claims (20)

1. 1 . A seed of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN, wherein a representative sample of seed of said hybrid has been deposited under NCIMB No. 44632.
2. 2 . A pepper plant, a plant part thereof, or a plant cell thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 1 , wherein the pepper plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid CAPTAIN when grown under the same environmental conditions.
3. 3 . The pepper plant part, or a plant cell thereof of claim 2 , wherein the pepper part is selected from the group consisting of a leaf, a flower, a fruit, a stalk, a cell, a root, a rootstock, a meristem, and a scion.
4. 4 . A tissue culture of regenerable cells produced from the pepper plant or plant part of claim 2 .
5. 5 . A pepper plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 4 .
6. 6 . A method for harvesting a pepper fruit, the method comprising (a) growing the pepper plant of claim 2 to produce a pepper fruit, and (b) harvesting said pepper fruit.
7. 7 . A method for producing a pepper seed, the method comprising crossing a first parent pepper plant with a second parent pepper plant and harvesting the resultant pepper seed, wherein said first parent pepper plant and/or second parent pepper plant is the pepper plant of claim 2 .
8. 8 . A method for producing a pepper seed, the method comprising self-pollinating the pepper plant of claim 2 and harvesting the resultant pepper seed.
9. 9 . A method of vegetatively propagating the pepper plant of claim 2 , said method comprising (a) collecting part of the plant of claim 2 and (b) regenerating a plant from said part.
10. 10 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising harvesting a fruit from said plant.
11. 11 . A plant obtained from the method of claim 9 , wherein said plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid CAPTAIN when grown under the same environmental conditions.
12. 12 . A pepper fruit selected from the group consisting of: (a) a pepper fruit produced from the plant of claim 2 ; (b) a pepper fruit produced by the method of claim 6 , and (c) a pepper fruit produced from the method of claim 10 .
13. 13 . A method of producing a pepper plant derived from the hybrid pepper plant CAPTAIN, the method comprising: (a) self-pollinating the pepper plant of claim 2 at least once to produce a progeny pepper plant derived from the hybrid pepper variety CAPTAIN.
14. 14 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising the steps of: (b) crossing the progeny pepper plant derived from the hybrid pepper plant CAPTAIN with itself or a second pepper plant to produce a progeny seed of a subsequent generation; (c) growing a progeny plant from the progeny seed of the subsequent generation; (d) crossing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation with itself or a second pepper plant to produce a pepper plant derived from the hybrid pepper plant CAPTAIN; and (e) repeating step (b) and/or (c) for at least one generation to produce a pepper plant further derived from the pepper hybrid CAPTAIN.
15. 15 . A method of producing a pepper plant derived from the hybrid pepper plant CAPTAIN, the method comprising; (a) crossing the pepper plant of claim 2 with a second pepper plant to produce a progeny pepper plant derived from the hybrid pepper variety CAPTAIN.
16. 16 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising the steps of: (b) crossing the progeny pepper plant derived from the hybrid pepper plant CAPTAIN with itself or a second pepper plant to produce a progeny seed of a subsequent generation; (c) growing a progeny plant from the progeny seed of the subsequent generation; (d) crossing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation with itself or a second pepper plant to produce a pepper plant derived from the pepper hybrid pepper plant CAPTAIN; and (e) repeating step (b) and/or (c) to produce a pepper plant further derived from the hybrid pepper plant CAPTAIN.
17. 17 . A method of producing a plant of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN comprising at least one desired trait, the method comprising introducing a single locus conversion conferring the desired trait into hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN whereby a plant of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN comprising the desired trait is produced.
18. 18 . A pepper plant, wherein said pepper plant comprises a single locus conversion and otherwise all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid pepper plant CAPTAIN deposited under NCIMB No. 44632.
19. 19 . The plant of claim 18 , wherein the single locus conversion confers said plant with herbicide resistance, male sterility, male fertility, insect resistance, disease resistance, water stress tolerance, heat tolerance, improved standability, enhanced plant vigor, improved shelf life, delayed senescence or controlled ripening, and increased nutritional quality.
20. 20 . The plant of claim 18 , wherein the single locus conversion is an artificially mutated gene or nucleotide sequence.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 to Provisional Application U.S. Ser. No. 63/433,705, filed on Dec. 19, 2922, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety including without limitation, the specification, claims, and abstract, as well as any figures, tables, or examples thereof. FIELD The present disclosure relates to the field of agriculture, to new and distinctive hybrid pepper plants, such as hybrid plant designated CAPTAIN and to methods of making and using such hybrids. BACKGROUND The following description includes information that may be useful in understanding the present disclosure. It is not an admission that any of the information provided herein is prior art or relevant to the present disclosure, or that any publication specifically or implicitly referenced is prior art. Pepper is an important and valuable vegetable crop. Thus, a continuing goal of plant breeders is to develop stable, high yielding pepper hybrids that are agronomically sound or unique. The reasons for this goal are to maximize the amount of fruit produced on the land used (yield) as well as to improve the fruit appearance, the fruit shape and size, eating and processing qualities and/or the plant agronomic and horticultural qualities. To accomplish this goal, the pepper breeder must select and develop pepper plants that have the traits that result in superior parental lines that combine to produce superior hybrids. SUMMARY The following embodiments and aspects thereof are described in conjunction with systems, tools and methods which are meant to be exemplary, not limiting in scope. In various embodiments, one or more of the above-described problems have been reduced or eliminated, while other embodiments are directed to other improvements. According to the disclosure, in some embodiments there is provided a novel hybrid pepper, designated CAPTAIN. This disclosure thus relates to the seeds of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN, to the plants or parts thereof of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN, to plants or parts thereof consisting essentially all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN or parts thereof, and/or having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN, and/or having one or more or all of the characteristics of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN listed in Table 1 including but not limited to as determined at the 5% significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions, and/or having one or more of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN listed in Table 1 including but not limited to as determined at the 5% significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions and/or having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN listed in Table 1 including but not limited to as determined at the 5% significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions and/or having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN listed in Table 1 when grown in the same environmental conditions. The disclosure also relates to variants, mutants and trivial modifications of the seed or plant of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN. Plant parts of the hybrid pepper plant of the present disclosure are also provided, such as, but not limited to, a scion, a rootstock, a fruit, leaf, flower, peduncle, stalk, root, anther cell, pollen or ovule obtained from the hybrid plant. The present disclosure provides fruit of the hybrid pepper of the present disclosure. Such fruit and parts thereof could be used as fresh products for consumption or in processes resulting in processed products such as food products comprising one or more harvested part of the hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN, such as prepared fruit or parts thereof, canned fruit or parts thereof, freeze dried or frozen fruit or parts thereof, diced fruits, juice, prepared fruit cuts, canned pepper, pastes, sauces, puree and the like. All such products are part of the present disclosure and the like. The harvested part or food product can be or can comprise hybrid pepper fruit from hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN. The food products might have undergone one or more processing steps such as, but not limited to cutting, washing, mixing, frizzing, canning, etc. All such products are part of the present disclosure. The present disclosure also provides plant parts or cells, wherein a plant regenerated from said plants parts or cells has one or more, or essentially all of the phenotypic and morphological characteristics of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN, such as one or more or all of the characteristics of hybrid pepper designated CAPTAIN, listed in Table 1 including but not limited to as determined at the 5% significance level when grown in the same environmental conditio