A Weigela plant having one or more of the following traits: 1) dark foliage color, 2) reblooming (remontant) (e.g., blooming multiple times throughout the growing season without pruning), 3) large flower size, 4) flowers that are bright pink, 5) petals that occasionally exhibit a medial stripe in a darker pink color, and 6) compact plant habit.

Inbred corn line, designated IV19307M1, is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of inbred corn line IV19307M1, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line IV19307M1 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line IV19307M1 with itself or another corn line. The disclosure also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line IV19307M1 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The disclosure further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other corn lines derived from inbred corn line IV19307M1.

The present invention relates to spinach plants displaying resistance to Peronospora effusa. The present invention also relates to seeds and parts of said plants, for example leaves and heads. The present invention further relates to methods of making and using such seeds and plants. The present invention also relates to genetic sequences associated with said resistance to Peronospora effusa and to molecular markers associated with said genetic sequences.

The present subject matter relates to methods and compositions for identifying soybean plants that having increased Phytophthora root and stem rot resistance. The methods use molecular markers to identify and to select plants with increased Phytophthora root and stem rot resistance or to identify and deselect plants with decreased Phytophthora root and stem rot resistance. Soybean plants generated by the methods disclosed are also a feature of the present subject matter.

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of breeding, in particular to an environmental-friendly and efficient breeding method of high-yield and high-quality wheat cultivars. In the present disclosure, the breeding method can improve a breeding efficiency of excellent new cultivars, further realize large-scale production, and further increase a planting area of the excellent cultivars. In addition, the breeding method can increase the number of products for the new cultivars, further increase a diversity of early-generation materials, and further increase a diversity of hybrid samples through the innovation of hybridization and breeding methods. The environmental-friendly and efficient breeding method of high-yield and high-quality wheat cultivars can increase a richness of excellent characteristics of the new cultivars through high-generation materials, hybridization, and off-site identification, thereby further improving an effect of breeding.

A plant disease resistance inducing method and a plant disease resistance inducing device, as well as a plant disease resistance inducing agent, which can induce a systemic resistance without inhibiting the plant growth in a relatively easy and inexpensive manner and with little environmental loads. A plant is exposed to a gas containing dinitrogen pentoxide to induce the disease resistance. It is particularly preferable that dinitrogen pentoxide is produced using a plasma generated with air as a source gas, and a plant is exposed to a gas containing dinitrogen pentoxide.

The invention relates to a resistance gene and functional homologues or fragments thereof isolated from S. chacoense, S. berthaultii, S. sucrense or S. tarijense. Moreover, the invention relates to the use of said resistance gene, for example the use of said resistance gene in a method to increase or confer at least partial resistance in a plant to an oomycete infection.

The invention provides an isolated or recombinant nucleic acid sequence comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding one of the amino acid sequences of FIG. 4 or a functional fragment or a functional homologue thereof such as those presented in FIG. 13.

The present disclosure provides for unique spinach plants with broad-spectrum resistance to downy mildew and their progeny. Such plants may comprise an introgressed QTL associated with the broad-spectrum resistance to downy mildew. In certain aspects, compositions, including distinct polymorphic molecular markers, and methods for producing, using, identifying, selecting, and the like of plants or germplasm with resistance to downy mildew are provided.

Methods for improving one or more agronomic traits of a plant by selecting a plant variety that exhibits overcompensation is provided as is a method for producing one or more plant products from a modified plant that exhibits improvements in one or more agronomic traits. The methods may include reducing or inhibiting the biosynthetic production of one or more plant chemical defense compounds prior to removing the plant apical meristem at a time that is known to cause overcompensation in selected plants.

The invention relates to a resistance gene and functional homologues or fragments thereof isolated from S. chacoense, S. berthaultii, S. sucrense or S. tarijense. More over, the invention relates to the use of said resistance gene, for example the use of said resistance gene in a method to increase or confer at least partial resistance in a plant to an oomycete infection. The invention provides an isolated or recombinant nucleic acid sequence comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding one of the amino acid sequences of FIG 4 or a functional fragment or a functional homologue thereof such as those presented in FIG. 13.