PEPPER WITH INCREASED TOTAL CONTENT OF TERPENOIDS

• Main Authors: PIETER MARTIJN EGGINK, ARNAUD GUILLAUME BOVY, YURY TIKUNOV, EVERT WILLEM GUTTELING, JACOB PIETER WILLEM HAANSTRA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: 07.04.2016
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; ENZYMOLOGY; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEW PLANTS OR PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; SPIRITS; TRAPPING; VINEGAR; WINE

The present invention relates to a pepper plant (Capsicum annuum L.) comprising at least one QTL selected from QTL1, QTL2 and QTL3, which when present lead to the plant producing fruits with an increased total content of terpenoids, wherein said QTL1 is obtainable from a pepper plant comprising said QTL representative seed of which was deposited at the NCIMB under number NCIMB 42140, and wherein said QTL2 and QTL3 are obtainable from a pepper plant comprising said QTL representative seed of which was deposited at the NCIMB under number NCIMB 42138. La presente invención se refiere a una planta de pimiento (Capsicum annuum L.) que comprende al menos un QTL seleccionado de QTL1, QTL2 y QTL3, que cuando está presente lleva a la planta a producir frutos con un contenido total aumentado de terpenoides, en donde tal QTL1 se puede obtener de una planta de pimiento que comprende tal QTL, la semilla representativa, la cual se depositó ante la NCIMB bajo el número NCIMB 42140, y en donde tal QTL2 y QTL3 se pueden obtener de una planta de pimiento que comprende tal QTL, la semilla representativa se depositó ante la NCIMB bajo el número NCIMB 42138.