Melon variety NUN 71550 MEM
A new and distinct melon variety NUN 71550 MEM is disclosed as well as seeds and plants and fruits thereof. NUN 71550 MEM is a Honey Dew melon variety, comprising intermediate resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis Race 0 and Race 2 and Podosphaera xanthii Race 5.
1 . A plant or seed of melon variety NUN 71550 MEM, wherein a representative sample of seed of said melon variety NUN 71550 MEM has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44083.
2 . A plant part of the plant of claim 1 , wherein said plant part is a leaf, a cell, a fruit, a scion, a root, a rootstock, or a cutting.
3 . A seed that produces the plant of claim 1 .
4 . A melon plant or part thereof having all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of claim 1 or part thereof when grown under the same environmental conditions.
5 . A tissue culture or cell culture comprising regenerable cells of the plant of claim 1 , or part thereof, wherein said cells are obtained from melon variety NUN 71550 MEM and are suitable for regeneration into a plant having all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of melon variety NUN 71550 MEM.
6 . The tissue culture or cell culture according to claim 5 , comprising cells or protoplasts obtained from the plant part of melon variety NUN 71550 MEM suitable for vegetative reproduction, wherein the plant part is a meristem, a fruit, a leaf, a petiole, a shoot, a stem, a root, a root tip, a cutting, a hypocotyl, a cotyledon, a scion, a stock, a rootstock, a stem, or a stalk.
7 . A method of producing the plant of claim 1 or a part thereof, said method comprising vegetatively propagating at least a part of the plant of melon variety NUN 71550 MEM, wherein a representative sample of seed of said melon variety NUN 71550 MEM has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44083.
8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein said vegetatively propagating comprises regenerating a whole plant from said part of the plant of melon variety NUN 71550 MEM, wherein a representative sample of seed of said melon variety NUN 71550 MEM has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44083.
9 . The method of claim 7 , wherein said part is a cutting, a cell culture, or a tissue culture.
10 . A method of producing a melon plant, said method comprising crossing the plant of claim 1 with a second plant at least once, selecting a progeny melon plant from said crossing and optionally allowing the progeny melon plant to form seed.
11 . A method of producing a melon seed, said method comprising crossing melon plants and harvesting the resultant seed, wherein at least one melon plant is the plant of claim 1 , wherein a representative sample of seed of said melon variety NUN 71550 MEM has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44083.
12 . A method of producing doubled haploid cells of the plant of claim 1 , said method comprising making double haploid cells from haploid cells from the plant or seed of melon variety NUN 71550 MEM, wherein a representative sample of seed of said melon variety NUN 71550 MEM has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44083.
13 . A melon plant comprising the scion or rootstock of melon variety NUN 71550 MEM, wherein a representative sample of seed of said melon variety NUN 71550 MEM has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44083.
14 . A container comprising the plant or seed of claim 1 .
15 . A food product, or a feed product, or a processed product comprising the plant part of claim 2 , wherein the plant part comprises at least a cell of melon variety NUN 71550 MEM.
16 . A method of introducing a desired trait into the plant of claim 1 , said method comprises transforming the plant of claim 1 with a transgene that confers the desired trait, wherein the desired trait is male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, pest resistance, disease resistance, environmental stress tolerance, modified carbohydrate metabolism, or modified metabolism.
17 . A method of producing a melon fruit, said method comprising growing the plant of claim 1 until it sets at least one fruit and collecting at least one fruit.
18 . A melon fruit produced by the method of claim 17 .
19 . A container comprising the fruit produced by the method of claim 17 .
20 . A method for determining the genotype of the plant of claim 1 , said method comprising obtaining a sample of nucleic acids from said plant, detecting in said nucleic acid a plurality of polymorphisms, thereby determining the genotype of the plant, and storing the results of detecting the plurality of polymorphisms on a computer readable medium.
21 . A method for developing a melon plant in a melon breeding program, said method comprises applying plant breeding techniques to the plant of claim 1 or part thereof, wherein said plant breeding techniques result in a development of melon plant.
22 . A method of producing a melon plant obtained from the plant of claim 1 , comprising:
a. producing a progeny melon plant derived from melon variety NUN 71550 MEM by crossing the plant of claim 1 with itself or with a second melon plant;
b. crossing the progeny plant with itself or a different melon plant to produce seed of a progeny plant of a subsequent generation;
c. growing a progeny plant of the subsequent generation from said seed and crossing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation with itself another melon plant; and
d. repeating steps (b) an (c) for at least one more generation to produce a melon plant derived from melon variety NUN 71550 MEM.
23 . A method of producing a modified melon plant, said method comprising mutating a target gene by targeted gene editing in melon plant or plant part of melon variety NUN 71550 MEM, wherein the target gene modifies a desired trait and wherein the desired trait is male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, pest resistance, disease resistance, environmental stress tolerance, modified carbohydrate metabolism, or modified metabolism, and wherein a representative sample of seed of said variety has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44083.