Pennycress variety B28
A novel pennycress variety designated B28 is provided. This disclosure thus relates to the seeds of pennycress variety B28, to the plants of pennycress variety B28, to plant parts of pennycress variety B28, to methods for producing a pennycress plant by crossing a plant of pennycress variety B28 with a plant of another pennycress variety, and to methods for producing a plant of pennycress variety B28 containing in its genetic material one or more gene edits, backcross conversion traits, or transgenes and to the pennycress plants and plant parts produced by those methods.
1 . A seed of pennycress variety B28, wherein a representative sample of seed of the variety has been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202208006.
2 . A pennycress plant produced by growing the seed of claim 1 .
3 . A part of the pennycress plant of claim 2 , wherein the part is a microspore, pollen, an ovary, an ovule, an embryo sac, an egg cell, pericarp, a root, a leaf, an inflorescence, a stem, a flower, a pod, a cell, or a protoplast.
4 . A tissue culture of regenerable cells or protoplasts from the pennycress plant of claim 2 , produced from an embryo, a meristematic cell, a leaf, a cotyledon, a hypocotyl, a stem, a root, a root tip, a pistil, an anther, a flower, a pod, a seed, or pollen of the pennycress plant of claim 2 .
5 . A pennycress plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 4 , wherein the plant has all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of variety B28, wherein a representative sample of seed of the variety has been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202208006.
6 . A method of vegetatively propagating a plant of pennycress variety B28, the method comprising:
collecting tissue capable of being propagated from a plant of pennycress variety B28, wherein a representative sample of seed of the variety was deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202208006;
cultivating the tissue to obtain proliferated shoots;
rooting the proliferated shoots to obtain a rooted plantlet; and
optionally growing a pennycress plant from the rooted plantlet.
7 . A pennycress plant or rooted plantlet produced by the method of claim 6 .
8 . A method for producing a hybrid pennycress seed, wherein the method comprises:
crossing the pennycress plant of claim 2 with a plant of a different pennycress variety; and
harvesting the resultant hybrid pennycress seed.
9 . An F 1 hybrid pennycress seed produced by the method of claim 8 .
10 . An F 1 hybrid pennycress plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the F 1 hybrid pennycress seed of claim 9 .
11 . A method of producing a pennycress plant derived from pennycress variety B28, the method comprising the steps of:
(a) crossing the plant of claim 2 with a second pennycress plant to produce a progeny plant;
(b) crossing the progeny plant of step (a) with itself or the second pennycress plant in step (a) to produce a seed
(c) growing a progeny plant of a subsequent generation from the seed produced in step (b);
(d) crossing the progeny plant of a subsequent generation of step (c) with itself or the second pennycress plant in step (a) to produce a pennycress plant derived from pennycress variety B28.
12 . A method of producing a plant of pennycress variety B28 comprising at least one desired trait, the method comprising introducing a single locus conversion conferring the desired trait into pennycress variety B28, wherein a representative sample of seed of the variety has been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202208006.
13 . A pennycress plant produced by the method of claim 12 , wherein the plant comprises one single locus conversion and otherwise all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of pennycress variety B28.
14 . The plant of claim 13 , wherein the single locus conversion confers said plant with a desired trait, and wherein the desired trait comprises herbicide resistance, insect resistance, resistance to bacterial disease, resistance to fungal disease, resistance to viral disease, male sterility, reduced seed fiber content, modified seed color, earlier maturity, increased or modified seed protein composition, increased or modified seed oil or fatty acid content, reduced seed glucosinolate content, reduced erucic acid content, and/or shatter resistance.
15 . A method of producing a modified pennycress plant, the method comprising mutating one or more endogenous genes in the pennycress plant of claim 2 or a plant part thereof.
16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the mutation of the one or more endogenous genes confers a desired trait, and wherein the desired trait comprises herbicide resistance, insect resistance, resistance to bacterial disease, resistance to fungal disease, resistance to viral disease, male sterility, reduced seed fiber content, modified seed color, earlier maturity, increased or modified seed protein composition, increased or modified seed oil or fatty acid content, reduced seed glucosinolate content, reduced erucic acid content, and/or shatter resistance.
17 . A modified pennycress plant produced by the method of claim 16 , wherein the plant comprises the desired trait and otherwise all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of pennycress variety B28.
18 . A method for producing a hybrid pennycress seed, wherein the method comprises:
crossing the pennycress plant of claim 13 with a plant of a different pennycress variety; and
harvesting the resultant hybrid pennycress seed.
19 . An F 1 hybrid pennycress seed produced by the method of claim 18 .
20 . An F 1 hybrid pennycress plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the F 1 hybrid pennycress seed of claim 19 .
21 . A method of introducing a desired trait into pennycress variety B28, the method comprising:
(a) crossing a plant of pennycress variety B28, wherein a representative sample of seed has been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202208006, with a plant of another pennycress variety that comprises the desired trait to produce an F 1 progeny plant;
(b) selecting at least a first F 1 progeny plant that comprises the desired trait to produce a selected F 1 progeny plant;
(c) crossing the selected F 1 progeny plant with a plant of pennycress variety B28 to produce at least a first backcross progeny plant that comprises the desired trait;
(d) selecting for at least one backcross progeny plant that has the desired trait and otherwise all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of a plant of pennycress variety B28 to produce at least one selected backcross progeny plant; and
(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce a selected fourth or higher backcross progeny plant that comprises the desired trait and otherwise all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of a plant of pennycress variety B28.
22 . A pennycress plant produced by the method of claim 21 .
23 . A method of introducing a mutation into the genome of pennycress variety B28, the method comprising applying a mutagen to the pennycress plant of claim 2 , or a part thereof, wherein the mutagen is selected from ethyl methanesulfonate, gamma-rays, and sodium azide; and wherein the resulting plant comprises a genome mutation.
24 . A plant comprising at least a first set of chromosomes of a plant of pennycress variety B28, a representative sample of seed of the variety having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202208006.
25 . A method of producing a modified pennycress plant, wherein the method comprises mutation, transformation, gene conversion, genome editing, RNA interference, or gene silencing of the plant of claim 2 .
26 . A method of producing a commodity plant product, the method comprising obtaining the plant of claim 12 or a part thereof and producing the commodity plant product therefrom, wherein the commodity plant product comprises carbohydrate, silage, oil, or protein.
27 . A method of comparing and/or characterizing the genotype of a plant of pennycress variety B28, a representative sample of seed of which has been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202208006, comprising:
obtaining a sample of nucleic acids from the plant of pennycress variety B28;
obtaining a sample of nucleic acids from a plant of a distinct pennycress variety;
comparing the nucleic acids obtained from the plant of pennycress variety B28 to the sample of nucleic acids obtained from the plant of the distinct pennycress variety.
28 . A method for developing a pennycress variety in a pennycress plant breeding program, comprising applying plant breeding techniques comprising recurrent selection, backcrossing, pedigree breeding, marker enhanced selection, mutation breeding, or genetic modification to the pennycress plant of claim 2 , or its parts, to develop a pennycress variety.