A spinacia plant with a low oxalic acid content, in particular a low oxalic acid content that is stable and unaffected by environmental conditions. A method for producing the same, a screening method, and a screening kit. A spinacia plant with a low oxalic acid content having at least one low oxalic acid locus located in a chromosome 4 region; a method for producing the spinacia plant having the low oxalic acid content through cross breeding the spinacia plant having the low oxalic acid content with another spinacia plant. A method for screening spinacia plants with low oxalic acid contents by selecting the spinacia plant having at least one low oxalic acid locus located in the chromosome 4 region. A kit for screening spinacia plants with low oxalic acid contents having a primer or a probe that is specifically bound to the low oxalic acid locus.

Provided herein are spinach plants resistant to Peronospora farinosa and Stemphylium vesicarium, and spinach plants additionally resistant to Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV). Also provided herein are genomic fragments providing the present resistances and use thereof for identifying spinach resistant to Peronospora farinosa and Stemphylium vesicarium, and spinach plants additionally resistant to Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV). Provided herein are a spinach plant resistant to Peronospora farinosa and Stemphylium vesicarium: including a genomic fragment of Spinacia tetrandra located on chromosome 4 between positions 8255074 and 8620598 of the spinach reference genome, the genomic fragment of Spinacia tetrandra lacking a lethal factor and providing Peronospora farinosa resistance and including a genomic fragment located on chromosome 3 and between positions 1177586 and 1271037 of the spinach reference genome providing Stemphylium vesicarium resistance.

The invention provides seeds and plants of spinach hybrid SVVB2772. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of spinach hybrid SVVB2772 and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a spinach plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of spinach hybrid SVVB2772 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.

The present invention relates to a Spinacia oleracea plant comprising a nucleic acid molecule which when homozygously present provides at least intermediate resistance to Peronospora effusa races Pe: 1, Pe: 2, Pe: 3, Pe: 4, Pe: 5, Pe: 6, Pe: 7, Pe: 8, Pe: 9, Pe: 10, Pe: 11, Pe: 12, Pe: 13, Pe: 14, Pe: 15, Pe: 16, Pe: 17, Pe: 18, Pe: 19 and Pe: 20, wherein said nucleic acid molecule comprises a gene which comprises a coding sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 1 and a gene which comprises a coding sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 2, or a gene which comprises a coding sequence having at least 95.0% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 7 and comprises an insertion of sequence motif GAAATA between nucleotides 1235 and 1236 of SEQ ID NO: 7 and a gene which comprises a coding sequence having at least 95.0% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 8 and lacks a sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 14, wherein the 95.0% sequence identity is over the part of SEQ ID NO: 8 without the lacking sequence, or genes comprising the corresponding genomic sequences or genes encoding a protein having an amino acid sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 3, and a gene encoding a protein having an amino acid sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 4, or genes encoding proteins showing 95% sequence identity thereto. The invention further relates to a plant carrying the nucleic acid molecule and to methods of selecting, producing and growing such plants.