The present invention relates to rice grain with thickened aleurone. Also provided is a rice plant comprising at least one genetic variation which reduces the activity of at least one ROS1a gene in the plant. Grain of the invention, or aleurone therefrom, has improved nutritional properties, and hence is particularly useful for human and animal feed products.

The present invention relates to a modified Cullin1 gene which leads to a plant type that enables efficient cultivation and/or is suitable for situations that require smaller portions, or reduces the labour, time and expenses involved with storing, handling and transporting of redundant plant leaves. The invention also relates to plants comprising the modified Cullin1 gene. The modified Cullin1 gene provides plants with a compact growth phenotype, i.e. comprising shorter internode length and/or a smaller leaf area when compared to plants not comprising the modified Cullin1 gene. The invention further relates to the use of the modified Cullin1 gene for the identification and development of a plant showing a compact growth phenotype, i.e. comprising shorter internodes and/or a smaller leaf area.

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.

The present invention relates to rice grain with thickened aleurone. Also provided is a rice plant comprising at least one genetic variation which reduces the activity of at least one ROS1a gene in the plant. Grain of the invention, or aleurone therefrom, has improved nutritional properties, and hence is particularly useful for human and animal feed products.

The invention relates to a celery plant (Apium graveolens L. dulce) carrying a genetic determinant that leads to short leaf blades and/or a more uniform distribution of stem lengths as compared to celery plants not carrying the genetic determinant, wherein said determinant is obtainable by introgression from a plant grown from seed of which a representative sample was deposited with the NCIMB under Accession No. NCIMB 41513. The invention also relates to seeds and other propagation material of the plant and to its progeny as well as to food products that comprise the consumable parts of the plant.

A cultivated pepper plant or seed capable of producing high yield properties of parthenocarpic fruits. The plant or seed comprises at least one Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) for an Excellent Parthenocarpy (EP) trait, the EP trait conferring production of elevated yield properties of parthenocarpic seedless fruits, as compared to a pepper plant having the same genetic background and lacking this EP trait, and the QTL is selected from QTL1 located 09.0-13.5 Mbp on chromosome 1, and QTL2 located 199-218 Mbp on chromosome 10.

The present invention relates to a modified DCAF8 gene, the wild type of which gene having a coding sequence according to SEQ ID No. 2, encoding the protein of SEQ ID No. 3, or having a coding sequence and a protein sequence that show at least 70% sequence identity to SEQ ID No. 2 and at least 70% sequence similarity to SEQ ID No. 3, respectively, and wherein the modified DCAF8 gene comprises one or more nucleotides replaced, inserted and/or deleted relative to the wild type, and wherein the modified DCAF8 gene when present homozygously, confers to a cucurbit plant a reduced leaf area phenotype as compared to a cucurbit plant not having the modified gene. The invention further relates to a plant comprising the modified DCAF8 gene of the invention.

According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for pollen prediction is provided. The present invention may include identifying, by a classification model, plant species within a plurality of locatable images taken at a plurality of locations; creating growth cycle prediction models for the plant species; modelling pollen count mappings for the plant species; predicting pollen yields at the locations for the plant species based on the growth cycle prediction models and the pollen count mappings; and calculating a pollen distribution at the locations based on the predicted pollen yields and aerodynamic models.

The disclosure provides novel Cucurbita plants having a determinate growth habit and plants comprising a QTL associated with said determinate growth trait. The disclosure provides a Cucurbita plant having a determinate growth habit and its derivatives. The disclosure also provides molecular markers linked to said QTL. The disclosure further provides methods for producing plants having a genetic determinacy in growth habit and maturity timing, and the plants produced by such methods.

Methods for delayed harvesting of corn fields are provided herein. These methods provide an extended, flexible period of time to harvest corn. The methods allow growers to harvest their corn at the optimal time for drying down or accessing seed, without increasing the risk of losing yield to lodging.