Granted Patent B2

US 12,419,265 · App. 18/617,115 · Granted Sep 23, 2025

Inventors: Mark Alfred Tester (Abu Dhabi, AE); Claudia Yveline Pailles Galvez (Abu Dhabi, AE); Gabriele Maria Fiene (Quarante, FR); Nathaly Rodriguez Ortiz (Tucson, AZ); Vanessa Melino (Washington, DC); Ryan Lefers (Abu Dhabi, AE)

Assignee: RedSea Science and Technology Inc.

A01H6/825A01H1/00A01H5/08

Abstract

Claims (32)

1. A plant, plant part, or plant cell of a tomato variety designated ‘X21-02’, wherein seed of said tomato variety has also been deposited under NCMA No. 202303006.

2. The tomato plant part of claim 1 , wherein the part is selected from the group consisting of a seed, leaf, a flower, a fruit, a stalk, a root, a rootstock, a scion; and a meristem.

3. The plant part of claim 2 , wherein the plant part is a rootstock.

4. A tissue culture of regenerable cells produced from the tomato plant, plant part, or plant cell of claim 1 .

5. A tomato plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 4 , said tomato plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety designated ‘X21-02’ deposited under deposited under NCMA No. 202303006, when grown under the same environmental conditions.

6. A method for harvesting a tomato fruit, the method comprising: (a) growing the tomato plant of claim 1 to produce a tomato fruit, and (b) harvesting said tomato fruit.

7. A method for producing a tomato seed, the method comprising: (a) crossing a first tomato plant with a second tomato plant and (b) harvesting the resultant tomato seed, wherein said first tomato plant and/or second tomato plant is the tomato plant of claim 1 .

8. A method of vegetatively propagating tomato variety designated ‘X21-02’, the method comprising: (a) collecting a plant part capable of being propagated from the plant of claim 1 and (b) regenerating a tomato plant from said plant part.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising (c) harvesting a fruit from said regenerated tomato plant.

10. A tomato plant obtained from the method of claim 8 , wherein said tomato plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato designated ‘X21-02’ when grown under the same environmental conditions, and wherein seed of said tomato variety has also been deposited under NCMA No. 202303006.

11. A tomato fruit produced from the method of claim 9 , wherein said tomato fruit has all the morphological and Physiological characteristics of the fruit of said tomato variety designated ‘X21-02’ deposited under NCMA No. 202303006.

12. A method of producing a tomato plant obtained from tomato variety designated ‘X21-02’, the method comprising: (a) growing the tomato seed produced by the method of claim 7 to obtain a progeny tomato plant.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising the steps of:

(b) crossing the progeny tomato plant obtained in step (a) with itself or a second tomato plant to produce a progeny seed of a subsequent generation;

(c) growing the progeny seed of the subsequent generation to produce a progeny plant of a subsequent generation; and

(d) crossing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation with itself or a second tomato plant to produce a tomato seed derived from tomato variety designated ‘X21-02’.

14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising;

(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) at least once to produce a tomato plant further derived from tomato variety designated ‘X21-02’.

15. The plant, plant part, or plant cell of claim 1 , further comprising a single locus conversion and having otherwise all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of tomato variety designated ‘X21-02’ except for the differences which result from the single locus conversion when grown under the same environmental conditions, and wherein seed of said tomato variety has also been deposited under NCMA No. 202303006.

16. The plant, plant part, or plant cell of claim 15 , wherein the single locus conversion confers said plant with male sterility, male fertility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, disease resistance, water stress tolerance, heat tolerance, improved standability, enhanced plant vigor, improved shelf life, delayed senescence or controlled ripening, or increased nutritional quality.

17. The plant, plant part, or plant cell of claim 15 , wherein the single locus conversion is an artificially mutated gene or an artificially mutated nucleotide sequence.

18. The plant, plant part, or plant cell of claim 15 , wherein the single locus conversion is introduced into the plant by a genetic transformation or a gene editing technique with a nuclease selected from the group consisting of Zinc finger nuclease (ZFN), Transcription Activation-Like Effector Nuclease (TALEN), Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats-associated Cas endonuclease (CRISPR-Cas), meganuclease, homing endonuclease, and RNA-guided nuclease.

19. A method of producing a composite tomato plant, the method comprising: grafting a rootstock or a scion of the tomato plant of claim 1 to another tomato plant.

20. A method for producing nucleic acids, the method comprising: isolating nucleic acids from the plant of claim 1 , a part, or a cell thereof.

21. A method of producing a commodity plant product, the method comprising: obtaining the plant, plant part, or plant cell of claim 1 and producing said commodity plant product therefrom.

22. A method for producing an allotetraploid tomato plant, comprising:

applying a chromosome doubling agent to a ‘X21-02’ plant, or a vegetative cutting thereof, to generate a chimeric interspecific hybrid;

growing the chimeric interspecific hybrid to produce a tomato fruit;

collecting seed from the tomato fruit;

growing the seed; and

selecting an allotetraploid tomato plant.

23. A composite tomato plant, wherein the rootstock of the composite plant is tomato variety designated ‘X21-02’, wherein seed of said tomato variety has also been deposited udner NCMA No. 202303006.

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