Sweet Pepper Hybrid 9942815 - Patent 8138398

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Description: FIELDOF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to the field of plant breeding and, more specifically, to the development of sweet pepper hybrid 9942815 and parents thereof.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The goal of vegetable breeding is to combine various desirable traits in a single variety/hybrid. Such desirable traits may include greater yield, resistance to insects or pests, tolerance to heat and drought, better agronomic quality, highernutritional value, growth rate and fruit properties. Breeding techniques take advantage of a plant's method of pollination. There are two general methods of pollination: a plant self-pollinates if pollen from one flower is transferred to the same or another flower of the same plant or plantvariety. A plant cross-pollinates if pollen comes to it from a flower of a different plant variety. Plants that have been self-pollinated and selected for type over many generations become homozygous at almost all gene loci and produce a uniform population of true breeding progeny, a homozygous plant. A cross between two such homozygousplants of different varieties produces a uniform population of hybrid plants that are heterozygous for many gene loci. Conversely, a cross of two plants each heterozygous at a number of loci produces a population of hybrid plants that differ geneticallyand are not uniform. The resulting non-uniformity makes performance unpredictable. The development of uniform lines requires the development of homozygous inbred plants, the crossing of these inbred plants, and the evaluation of the crosses. Pedigree breeding and recurrent selection are examples of breeding methods that havebeen used to develop inbred plants from breeding populations. Those breeding methods combine the genetic backgrounds from two or more plants or various other broad-based sources into breeding pools from which new lines are developed by selfing andselection of desired phenotypes. The new lines are evaluated to determine which of those