Potato plant
A new and distinct clonal line plant of Solanum tuberosum L . named KI969 and characterized by elevated levels of proteinase inhibitor II.
1. A node of potato clonal line designated KI969, or a part thereof, representative nodes of the line having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-123537.
2. A plant grown from the nodes in claim 1 .
3. A tuber grown from a plant grown from the node in claim 1 .
4. A population of potato nodes comprising at least one potato node of claim 1 .
5. A method for producing potato seed, said method comprising the steps of; (a) growing one or more plants from one or more of the the node of claim 1 ; (b) pollinating one or more plants produced from one or more of the node of claim 1 by self-pollination or by pollination with pollen from a different plant produced from the node of claim 1 ; and, (c) harvesting resultant seed.
6. A potato seed produced by the method of claim 5 .
7. A part of the potato plant of claim 2 , selected from the group consisting of an intact plant cell, a plant protoplast, pollen, an ovule, a tuber, a flower, a seed, a flower, a petal and a leaf.
8. Pollen of the plant of claim 2 .
9. An ovule of the plant of claim 2 .
10. A potato plant, or a part thereof, having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of claim 2 , or a part thereof.
11. A population of plants comprising at least one plant of claim 2 .
12. A method for producing a potato plant, said method comprising the step of: (a) crossing potato plant KI969, representative nodes of the line having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA -123537, with another different potato plant to yield progeny potato seed.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the other, different potato plant is an inbred potato plant.
14. The method of claim 12 , further comprising the step of selecting plants obtained from growing at least one generation of the progeny potato seed for a desirable trait.
15. A method of introducing a desired trait from potato line KI969said method comprising the steps of: (a) crossing KI969 plants with plants of another potato line to produce F1 progeny plants; and (b) selecting F1 progeny plants that have the desired trait from potato line KI969.