The invention provides seeds and plants of spinach line SMBS013-1209F. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of spinach line SMBS013-1209F 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 line SMBS013-1209F comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.

The present invention relates to an allele designated alpha-WOLF 27 which confers resistance to at least one Peronospora effusa race, wherein the protein encoded by said allele is a CC-NBS-LRR protein that comprises in its amino acid sequence: a) the motif “MAEIGYSVC” (SEQ ID NO: 1) at its N-terminus; and b) the motif “KWMCLR” (SEQ ID NO: 2); and wherein the LRR domain of the protein has in order of increased preference at least 95%, 95.5%, 96%, 96.5%, 97%, 97.5%, 98%, 98.5%, 99%, 99.5%, 100% sequence similarity to SEQ ID NO: 10. The allele when present in a spinach plant homozygously confers complete resistance to at least Peronospora effusa race Pe: 7, Pe: 8, Pe: 9, Pe: 11, Pe: 12, Pe: 13, Pe: 14, Pe: 15, Pe: 17.

The invention relates to plants and plant parts, in particular spinach plants (Spinacia oleracea L.), which are resistant to Peronospora farinosa f. sp. spinaciae. The invention also relates to seeds capable of producing Peronospora farinosa f. sp. spinaciae resistant plants. The invention further relates to methods for obtaining said plants with altered genotypes and seeds thereof, which are resistant to Peronospora farinosa f sp. spinaciae.

The present invention relates to an allele designated alpha-WOLF 26 which confers resistance to at least one Peronospora effusa race, wherein the protein encoded by said allele is a CC-NBS-LRR protein that comprises in its amino acid sequence: a) the motif “MAEIGYSVC” (SEQ ID NO: 1) at its N-terminus; and b) the motif “KWMCLR” (SEQ ID NO: 2); and wherein the LRR domain of the protein has in order of increased preference at least 91%, 91.5%, 92%, 92.5%, 93%, 93.5%, 94%, 94.5%, 95%, 95.5%, 96%, 96.5%, 97%, 97.5%, 98%, 98.5%, 99%, 99.5%, 100% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 10. The allele when homozygously present in a spinach plant confers complete resistance to at least Peronospora effusa race Pe: 7, Pe: 10, Pe: 11, Pe: 12, Pe: 13, Pe: 14, Pe: 15, Pe: 16, Pe: 17, and does not confer resistance to downy mildew race Pe: 8 and Pe: 9.

The present disclosure relates to spinach plants that are resistant to downy mildew caused by Peronospora farinosa (Pfs). The present disclosure further relates to a resistance gene that confers resistance to multiple races of Pfs in spinach plants. In addition, the 5 present disclosure relates to methods for obtaining a spinach plant that is resistant to downy mildew.

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.

The invention pertains to spinach plants comprising a gene or locus which leads to a broad spectrum resistance to Peronospora farinosa f sp. spinaciae (Pfs). The invention also relates to progeny of said spinach plants, to propagation material of said spinach plants, to a cell of said spinach plants, to seed of said spinach plants, and to harvested leaves of said spinach plants. This invention further relates to use of said spinach plants in breeding to confer resistance against Peronospora farinosa f. sp. spinaciae.

Novel beet, such as beet designated AMARENA is disclosed. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to the seeds of beet AMARENA, to the plants and plant parts of beet AMARENA, and to methods for producing a beet plant by crossing the beet AMARENA with itself or another beet plant. Provided herewith are methods for producing a beet 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 beet plants derived from the beet AMARENA.

One embodiment relates to seed and plants of inbred beet line AZ10319. Another embodiment relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of inbred beet line AZ10319, and to methods for producing a beet plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves, with another beet plant, such as a plant of another genotype, or with vegetatively propagating said plant. Another embodiment further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. Further embodiments relate to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.

The present invention relates to an allele designated alpha-CMV which confers resistance to CMV when present in a spinach plant, wherein the protein encoded by said allele is a CC-NBS-LRR protein that comprises in its amino acid sequence: a) the motif “MAEIGYSVC” (SEQ ID NO: 22) at its N-terminus; and b) the motif “KWMCLR” (SEQ ID NO: 23); and c) an LRR domain that has in order of increased preference at least 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 100% sequence similarity to SEQ ID NO: 10. The allele has a genomic nucleotide sequence which in order of increased preference has at least 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 100% sequence similarity to SEQ ID NO: 1. The invention further relates to plants comprising the allele and to various methods involving the allele.