Asparagus cultivar MM4.256.78
View Patent ↗The disclosure relates to the novel asparagus cultivar designated MM4.256.78. Provided by the disclosure are the plants, plant parts, and derivatives of the asparagus cultivar MM4.256.78. Also provided by the disclosure are methods of using the asparagus cultivar MM4.256.78 and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the disclosure are methods for producing asparagus plants by crossing the asparagus cultivar MM4.256.78 with another asparagus cultivar and plants and seeds produced by such methods.
1 . Asparagus cultivar MM4.256.78, wherein a representative sample of plant tissue of the cultivar has been deposited under NCMA No. 202406007.
2 . An asparagus plant, or a part thereof, of the cultivar of claim 1 .
3 . A plant having all of the morphological and physiological traits of the asparagus plant of claim 2 .
4 . A tissue culture of regenerable cells or protoplasts from the asparagus plant of claim 2 .
5 . The tissue culture of claim 4 , wherein the cells or protoplasts of the tissue culture are derived from a tissue comprising pollen, cotyledon, hypocotyl, meristem, root, root tip, or stem.
6 . An asparagus plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 4 , wherein the regenerated plant expresses all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of asparagus cultivar MM4.256.78, wherein a representative sample of plant tissue of the cultivar has been deposited under NCMA No. 202406007.
7 . A method for producing hybrid asparagus seed, wherein the method comprises:
crossing the asparagus plant of claim 2 with a different asparagus plant; and
harvesting the resultant hybrid asparagus seed.
8 . A method of vegetatively propagating asparagus cultivar MM4.256.78, the method comprising:
collecting tissue capable of being propagated from the plant of claim 2 ;
cultivating the tissue to obtain proliferated shoots; and
rooting the proliferated shoots to obtain a rooted plantlet.
9 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising growing a plant from the rooted plantlet.
10 . A method of producing an asparagus plant derived from asparagus cultivar MM4.256.78, the method comprising:
(a) crossing the asparagus plant of claim 1 with a first female asparagus plant, whereby seed of a MM4.256.78-derived asparagus plant forms.
11 . The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
(b) crossing a plant grown from MM4.256.78-derived asparagus seed with a second female asparagus plant to yield additional MM4.256.78-derived asparagus seed; (c) growing the additional MM4.256.78-derived asparagus seed of step (b) to yield additional MM4.256.78-derived asparagus plants; and (d) repeating the crossing and growing of steps (b) and (c) for an additional 3-10 generations to generate further MM4.256.78-derived asparagus plants, whereby seed of a MM4.256.78-derived asparagus plant forms.
12 . A method of producing a plant of asparagus cultivar MM4.256.78 comprising at least one new trait, the method comprising:
introducing a transgene conferring the at least one new trait into the plant of claim 1 .
13 . An asparagus plant produced by the method of claim 12 , wherein the plant comprises the desired trait and otherwise comprises all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of a plant of asparagus cultivar MM4.256.78.
14 . A method of producing a genetically modified asparagus plant, wherein the method comprises transformation, genome editing, RNA interference, or gene silencing of the plant of claim 1 .
15 . A genetically modified asparagus plant produced by the method of claim 14 .
16 . A method of producing a commodity plant product, the method comprising:
collecting the commodity plant product from the asparagus plant of claim 1 .
17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the commodity plant product is fresh, cut, sliced, canned, jarred, washed, packaged, frozen, or heated asparagus spears.
18 . A commodity plant product produced by the method of claim 16 , wherein the commodity plant product comprises at least one cell of asparagus cultivar MM4.256.78.
19 . A method for producing asparagus spears as a fresh vegetable comprising:
packaging asparagus spears from the plant of claim 1 .
20 . A method for producing asparagus spears as a processed food comprising:
processing asparagus spears from the plant of claim 1 .
21 . A container comprising one or more asparagus spears from the plant of claim 1 .
22 . A method of determining the genotype of a plant of asparagus cultivar MM4.256.78 comprising:
obtaining a sample of nucleic acids from the plant of claim 1 ; and
detecting in said nucleic acids a plurality of polymorphisms.