Wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ
The present invention relates to a Diplotaxis tenuifolia seed designated 89-WR014 RZ, which exhibits a combination of traits including an early-medium to medium flowering time, and a medium divided leaf. The present invention also relates to a Diplotaxis tenuifolia plant produced by growing the 89-WR014 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the wild rocket cultivar, represented by wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ.
1 . A seed of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ, a sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44296, respectively.
2 . A plant grown from the seed of claim 1 .
3 . The wild rocket plant of claim 2 , which is a plant grown from seed having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44296.
4 . A wild rocket plant, or a part thereof, having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the wild rocket plant of claim 2 .
5 . A part of the plant of claim 4 , wherein said part is a leaf, a cotyledon, a hypocotyl, a meristematic cell, a microspore, a pollen, an anther, a flower, an ovary, an ovule, an embryo, an embryo sac or an egg cell, a cutting, a root, a root tip, a stem, a cell or a protoplast.
6 . A tissue culture of regenerable cells or protoplasts from the wild rocket plant or plant part of claim 5 .
7 . The tissue culture as of claim 6 , wherein said cells or protoplasts of the tissue culture are derived from a leaf, pollen, an embryo, a cotyledon, a hypocotyl, a meristematic cell, a root, a root tip, an anther, a flower, a seed or a stem.
8 . A wild rocket plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 6 , wherein the regenerated plant expresses all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ, a sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44296.
9 . A method of vegetatively propagating a plant of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ comprising (a) collecting tissue capable of being propagated from a plant of wild rocket 89-WR014 RZ, a sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44296, respectively, and (b) producing a rooted plant from said tissue.
10 . A method of producing a wild rocket seed comprising crossing a male parent wild rocket plant with a wild rocket parent plant and harvesting the resultant wild rocket seed, wherein said male parent wild rocket plant and/or said female parent wild rocket plant is the wild rocket plant of claim 2 .
11 . A wild rocket seed produced by the method of claim 10 , which plant expresses all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ.
12 . A wild rocket plant produced by growing the seed of claim 11 , which plant expresses all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ.
13 . A method for producing a seed of a 89-WR014 RZ-derived wild rocket plant comprising (a) crossing a plant of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44296, respectively, with a second wild rocket plant, and (b) whereby seed of a 89-WR014 RZ-derived wild rocket plant forms.
14 . The method of claim 13 further comprising (c) crossing a plant grown from 89-WR014 RZ-derived wild rocket seed with itself or with a second wild rocket plant to yield additional 89-WR014 RZ-derived wild rocket seed, (d) growing the additional 89-WR014 RZ-derived wild rocket seed of step (c) to yield additional 89-WR014 RZ-derived wild rocket plants, and (e) repeating the crossing and growing of steps (c) and (d) for an additional 3-10 generations to generate further 89-WR014 RZ-derived wild rocket plants, and (f) whereby seed of a 89-WR014 RZ-derived wild rocket plant forms.
15 . A seed produced by the method of claim 13 , which plant expresses all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ.
16 . A seed produced by the method of claim 14 , which plant expresses all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ.
17 . A method of introducing at least one new trait into a plant of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ comprising: (a) crossing a plant of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44296, with a second wild rocket plant that comprises at least one new trait to produce progeny seed; (b) harvesting and planting the progeny seed to produce at least one progeny plant of a subsequent generation, wherein the progeny plant comprises the at least one new trait; (c) crossing the progeny plant with a plant of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ to produce backcross progeny seed; (d) harvesting and planting the backcross progeny seed to produce a backcross progeny plant; and (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) for at least three additional generations to produce a wild rocket plant of variety 89-WR014 RZ comprising at least one new trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of a plant of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ, when grown in the same environmental conditions.
18 . A method of producing a plant of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ comprising at least one new trait, the method comprising introducing a mutation or transgene conferring the at least one new trait into a plant of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ, wherein a sample of seed of said variety has been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44296.
19 . The wild rocket plant produced by the method of claim 18 , which plant expresses all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of wild rocket variety 89-WR014 RZ.
20 . A method for producing wild rocket leaves as food product comprising sowing the seed of claim 1 and growing the seed into a harvestable wild rocket plant and harvesting the leaves of said plant.
21 . A method for producing wild rocket leaves as a fresh vegetable comprising packaging leaves of a plant of claim 2 .
22 . A method for producing wild rocket leaves as a processed food comprising processing leaves of a plant of claim 2 .
23 . A container comprising one or more wild rocket plants of claim 2 for harvest of leaves.