IP Library Granted Patent US 12,478,029
Granted Patent B2
US 12,478,029 · App. 17/976,793 · Granted Nov 25, 2025

Yellow field pea cultivar 3997499

Inventor: Bala B. Pudota (Chesterfield, MO)
Assignee: Confluence Geneics, LLC
A01H6/546A01H5/10
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Patent No.
US 12,478,029
App. No.
17/976,793
Granted
Nov 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A field pea cultivar designated 3997499 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds, plants, and plant parts of field pea cultivar 3997499, and methods for producing a field pea plants by crossing field pea cultivar 3997499 with itself or with another field pea variety. Embodiments further include methods for producing field pea plants containing one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic field pea plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments further relate to field pea cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from field pea cultivar 3997499, methods for producing other field pea cultivars, lines, hybrids, or plant parts derived from field pea cultivar 3997499, and the field pea plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.

Claims (25)

1 . A plant or a seed of field pea cultivar 3997499, wherein a representative sample of seed of said cultivar is deposited under NCMA No. 202305006.

2 . A field pea plant, or a part thereof, of the plant or seed of claim 1 , wherein the plant or plant part comprises at least one cell of field cultivar 3997499.

3 . A tissue culture comprising at least one cell or protoplast of the plant or plant part of claim 2 .

4 . A method for producing a field pea seed, wherein the method comprises fertilizing a field pea plant and harvesting the resultant field pea seed, wherein the field pea plant is the field pea plant of claim 1 .

5 . A field pea seed produced by the method of claim 4 , wherein the resulting field pea seed is an F1 offspring or the product of self-fertilization.

6 . A field pea plant produced by growing the seed of claim 5 .

7 . A method of producing a plant derived from field pea cultivar 3997499 comprising an added desired trait, wherein the method comprises introducing at least one mutation in a nucleic acid sequence of the field pea plant, or plant part thereof, or seed of claim 1 , wherein the mutation confers the desired trait to at least one cell of field pea cultivar 3997499.

8 . A field pea plant produced by the method of claim 7 , wherein the plant comprises the desired trait and otherwise contains all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of field pea cultivar 3997499.

9 . A method of producing a plant derived from field pea cultivar 3997499, wherein a representative sample of seed of said cultivar is deposited under NCMA No. 202305006, comprising an added desired trait, wherein the method comprises introducing at least one nucleic acid sequence conferring the desired trait to said plant.

10 . A field pea plant produced by the method of claim 9 , wherein the plant comprises the desired trait and otherwise contains all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of field pea cultivar 3997499.

11 . The field pea plant of claim 10 , wherein the desired trait is selected from the group comprising male sterility, herbicide tolerance, pest tolerance, disease tolerance, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism, modified seed yield, modified seed oil, modified seed protein, modified shattering, modified iron-deficiency chlorosis, modified water use efficiency, and/or combinations thereof.

12 . A method of producing a plant product comprising collecting a plant product from the plant of claim 1 , or plant part thereof.

13 . A field pea plant product produced by the method of claim 12 , wherein the plant product is produced from a plant having at least one cell of field pea cultivar 3997499 and wherein said plant contains all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of field pea cultivar 3997499.

14 . A method of introducing a desired trait into field pea cultivar 3997499, wherein the method comprises:

(a) crossing a 3997499 plant, wherein a sample of seed is deposited under NCMA No. 202305006, with a plant of another field pea cultivar having a desired trait to produce progeny plants;

(b) selecting one or more progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants;

(c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the 3997499 plant to produce backcross progeny plants;

(d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait; and

(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) a sufficient number of times in succession to produce selected second or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and essentially all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of field pea cultivar 3997499.

15 . A field pea plant produced by the method of claim 14 wherein the plant has the desired trait and otherwise contains all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of field pea cultivar 3997499.

16 . A method for developing a field pea plant, comprising applying plant breeding techniques to the plant of claim 1 , or plant part thereof, comprising crossing, recurrent selection, mutation breeding, wherein said mutation breeding selects for a mutation that is spontaneous or artificially induced, backcrossing, genomic selection, pedigree breeding, marker enhanced selection, haploid/double haploid production, speed breeding, apomixis, or transformation, wherein application of said techniques results in development of a new field pea plant.

17 . A method of introducing a mutation into the genome of field pea cultivar 3997499, said method comprising mutagenesis of the plant of claim 1 , or a part thereof.

18 . A method of editing the genome of field pea cultivar 3997499, said method comprising editing the genome of the plant, of claim 1 , or plant part thereof, wherein said method is selected from the group comprising zinc finger nucleases, transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), engineered homing endonucleases/meganucleases, and the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated protein9 (Cas9) system.

19 . The seed, or part thereof, of claim 1 , wherein the seed further comprises at least one seed treatment.

20 . A food or feed product comprising a plant part of field pea cultivar 3997499, wherein a representative sample of seed of said cultivar was deposited under NCMA No. 202305006, wherein said plant part is a seed, leaf, stem, root, or cell.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 10, 2025
From: BENSON HILL SEEDS, INC.
To: CONFLUENCE GENETICS, LLC
Reel/Frame 071578/0923 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 30, 2025
From: BENSON HILL, INC.; BENSON HILL HOLDINGS, INC.; BENSON HILL FRESH, LLC; BENSON HILL SEEDS HOLDING, INC.; BENSON HILL SEEDS, INC.; BHB HOLDINGS, LLC; J&J SOUTHERN FARMS, LLC
To: CONFLUENCE GENETICS, LLC
Reel/Frame 071982/0368 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 1, 2022
From: PUDOTA, BALA B.
To: BENSON HILL SEEDS, INC.
Reel/Frame 061616/0995 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63274192 · Nov 1, 2021
Related Publication 20230133620A1 · May 4, 2023
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