Patent Application
20150342104
This application claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(f) from Netherlands Plant Variety Rights application No. PPS1540, filed May 20, 2014.
Capsicum annuum
‘SLP2B365’
The present invention comprises a new and distinct cultivar of Capsicum annuum, designated ‘SLP2B365’.
The new C. annuum ‘SLP2B365’ was discovered and selected as a single plant in Gedera, Israel in 2011, from the progeny of a cross between SC09-F4-33-b as the female parent (not patented) and AJ06-F3-378-19 as the male parent (not patented).
The new cultivar was first asexually propagated by root cuttings in Bet Dagan, Israel in February, 2011 and has been asexually propagated since that time by cutting and rooting in Gedera, Israel and Almeria, Spain. The distinctive characteristics of this new C. annuum are stable and reproduce true to type through successive generations of asexual reproduction.
“SLP2B365” is a distinctive variety of C. annuum characterized by the following traits, which have been repeatedly observed and in combination distinguish ‘SLP2B365’ as a new and distinct C. annuum cultivar:
1. Seedless fruits
2. Orange mature fruit color
3. Ability to set fruit under relatively hot conditions (e.g., 30′C to 35° C. during the day and 25° C. to 30° C. at night).
Essentially all of the fruits of cultivar ‘SLP2B365’ are completely seedless. However, in cases where ‘SLP2B365’ has been grown in the vicinity of a fertile variety, there are occasional fruits with seeds due to cross-pollination by insects transferring pollen from the fertile variety to ‘SLP2B365’.
The accompanying photographs show typical characteristics of the new cultivar.
The following is a detailed botanical description of a new and distinct variety of C. annuum known as ‘SLP2B365’. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that certain characteristics will vary with older or younger plants. Further, ‘SLP2B365’ has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. Where dimensions, sizes, colors and other characteristics are given, it is to be understood that such characteristics are approximations or averages set forth as accurately as practicable. The variety may differ from the descriptions set forth herein with variations in zo environmental and cultural conditions.
‘SLP2B365’ is able to set fruit throughout the year when grown in a plastic greenhouse in the northern Negev region of Israel, including under cold (December to February) and hot (September) temperatures.
A technical description of the variety is provided below in Table 1 based upon observations of 5-month-old plants grown under greenhouse conditions in Gedera, Israel during the Fall-Winter season.
Further features and characteristics of cultivar ‘SLP2B365’ are apparent from
SLP2B365′ is most similar to commercial C. annuum cultivar ‘SLP2B131’, which is also a seedless variety. As shown in Table 2, ‘SLP2B365’ can be distinguished from cultivar ‘SLP2B131’ at least with respect to mature fruit colour and season for fruit setting.
