Lettuce variety 41-CR2537 RZ
The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 41-CR2537 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 41-CR2537 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 41-CR2537 RZ.
1. A seed of lettuce variety 41-CR2537 RZ, a sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB accession No. 44003.
2. A lettuce plant grown from the seed of claim 1 .
3. A lettuce plant, or a part thereof, having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the lettuce plant of claim 2 .
4. A part of the lettuce plant of claim 2 , wherein said part comprises a microspore, pollen, ovary, ovule, embryo sac, egg cell, cutting, root, stem, cell or protoplast.
5. A tissue culture of regenerable cells or protoplasts from the lettuce plant of claim 2 .
6. The tissue culture as claimed in claim 5 , wherein said cells or protoplasts of the tissue culture are derived from a tissue comprising a leaf, pollen, embryo, cotyledon, hypocotyl, meristematic cell, root, root tip, anther, flower, seed or stem.
7. A lettuce plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 5 , wherein the regenerated plant expresses all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of lettuce variety 41-CR2537 RZ, a sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB accession No. 44003.
8. A method of vegetatively propagating a plant of lettuce variety 41-CR2537 RZ, a sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB 44003, comprising (a) collecting tissue capable of being propagated from a lettuce plant of claim 2 , (b) cultivating the tissue to obtain proliferated shoots and rooting the proliferated shoots to obtain rooted plantlets, and (c) optionally growing plants from the rooted plantlets.
9. A method for producing a progeny plant of lettuce variety 41-CR2537 RZ, a sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB 44003, comprising crossing a lettuce plant of claim 2 with itself or with another lettuce plant, harvesting the resultant seed, and growing said seed.
10. A progeny plant produced by the method of claim 9 , wherein said progeny exhibits all the morphological and physiological characteristics of the lettuce variety designated 41-CR2537 RZ, a sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB accession No. 44003.
11. A lettuce plant grown from a seed of lettuce variety 41-CR2537 RZ, a sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44003, wherein the plant further comprises a transgene and otherwise has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of a lettuce plant of lettuce variety 41-CR2537 RZ.
12. The plant as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the transgene is introduced via transformation.
13. A method for producing a modified lettuce plant comprising mutagenizing the seed of claim 1 and growing said seed.
14. A method for producing a modified lettuce plant comprising mutagenizing the plant of any one of claim 2, 3 or 7 .
15. A method for producing a modified lettuce plant comprising mutagenizing the part of plant of any one of claim 3 or 4 .
16. A method for producing a modified lettuce plant comprising mutagenizing the tissue culture of claim 5 .
17. A method of producing a lettuce seed comprising crossing a male parent lettuce plant with a female parent lettuce plant and harvesting the resultant lettuce seed, wherein said male parent lettuce plant or said female parent lettuce plant is the lettuce plant of claim 2 .
18. An F1 lettuce seed produced by the method of claim 17 .
19. A lettuce plant produced by growing the seed of claim 18 .
20. A method for producing a seed of a 41-CR2537 RZ-derived lettuce plant comprising (a) crossing a plant of lettuce variety 41-CR2537 RZ, a sample of seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44003, with a second lettuce plant, and (b) whereby seed of a 41-CR2537 RZ-derived lettuce plant forms.
21. The method of claim 20 further comprising (c) crossing a plant grown from 41-CR2537 RZ-derived lettuce seed with itself or with a second lettuce plant to yield additional 41-CR2537 RZ-derived lettuce seed, (d) growing the additional 41-CR2537 RZ-derived lettuce seed of step (c) to yield additional 41-CR2537 RZ-derived lettuce plants, and (e) repeating the crossing and growing of steps (c) and (d) for an additional 3-10 generations to generate further 41-CR2537 RZ-derived lettuce plants, and (f) whereby seed of a 41-CR2537 RZ-derived lettuce plant forms.
22. A method of introducing at least one new trait into a plant of lettuce variety 41-CR2537 RZ comprising: (a) crossing a plant of lettuce variety 41-CR2537 RZ, a sample of seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44003, with a second lettuce 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 lettuce variety 41-CR2537 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 lettuce plant of variety 41-CR2537 RZ comprising at least one new trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of a plant of lettuce variety 41-CR2537 RZ, when grown in the same environmental conditions.
23. A lettuce plant produced by the method of claim 22 , wherein the plant comprises the at least one new trait and otherwise all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of a lettuce plant of lettuce variety 41-CR2537 RZ.
24. A method for producing lettuce leaves as a food product comprising sowing the seed of claim 1 and growing the seed into a harvestable lettuce plant and harvesting the head or leaves of said plant, optionally processing and/or packaging the head or the leaves.
25. A container comprising one or more lettuce plants of claim 2 .
26. The lettuce plant of claim 2 , which is a plant grown from seed having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44003.