Opuntia plant named ‘Seleno-Orange’
USPP24039P3 · kind P3 · plant
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| Filing date | Mar 21, 2012 |
| Grant date | Nov 26, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 1, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC —)General
Abstract
A new and distinctly salt and boron tolerant cultivar of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica), named ‘Seleno-Orange’ is particularly distinguishable by its ability to tolerate and grow in high concentration of salt, boron and selenium-laden soil. The cultigen was originally discovered by stringent selection of randomly harvested cladodes (modified stems) and potentially from isolation of a single unique cladode or sport that exhibited high levels of salt and boron tolerance necessary for survival, and then propagated into the ‘Seleno-Orange’ cultivar. The cladodes were originally randomly harvested from different individual plants and screened from within a naturally segregating wild population or accession. The ‘Seleno-Orange’ cultivar has yellow flowers, mature green cladodes without glochids, and orange fruit. When grown in a saline/selenium-laden soil, the spineless ‘Seleno-Orange’ cultivar absorbs high concentrations of natural-occurring selenium, volatilizes selenium, and produces edible cladodes and fruit enriched with potential anti-carcinogenic forms of organic selenium.
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