Sweet & Sour Melon
Sweet and sour melon
The taste and aroma of melon fruits is determined by a number of factors, including sugars, aroma volatiles, free amino acids, organic acids, pH and soluble minerals (Wang et al. (1996) J. Agric. Food Chem. 44: 210-216). Among the four primary tastes (sweet, sour, bitter, salty), sweetness is considered to be a very important component of good tasting melon fruits. The flesh of sweet melon fruits has a pH usually above 6.0, but melon accessions are also known to have a much lower pH, as low as below 5.0.
The native trait referred to as sweet and sour melon introduces to melon plant fruits a new pleasant taste in which such fruits have a novel balanced composition of organic acid content, low pH and high sugar contents.
The present invention relates to novel melon plants capable of producing fruits with a new pleasant taste and to the seeds of these. It further relates to fruits of melon plants of the present invention, in which such fruits have specific organic acid content, low pH and high sugar contents. The present invention also further relates to methods of making and using plants and fruits disclosed here.
Varieties
Syngenta commercial varieties that contain the Sweet and Sour trait: Citrum
Patent
See the patent status by clicking here.
Please note that Syngenta is not responsible for the accuracy of the European Patent Office database. Please contact your patent expert for further information.
Financial Terms
Based on FRAND license terms Syngenta asks a 5% royalty on net sales for the use of this resistance locus in your commercial varieties.
You can review an example of a standard license agreement by clicking on the link: Standard License Agreement
Access to trait know-how and molecular markers to increase the efficiency with which the trait can be introduced into the market will be negotiated as a lump-sum or an additional royalty rate.