USPP36958P2 - Cannabis plant named ‘PTC8510V’ - Google Patents

Abstract

A new Cannabis variety distinguished by its maturity time, apical dominance, internode length. flower trichome density, aroma. very high THCV:THC ratio, and total cannabinoid content.

Description

Latin name of the genus and species of the plant claimed: Cannabis sativa.

Variety denomination: ‘PTC8510V’.

BACKGROUND

Cannabis is an annual, dioecious, flowering herb. Cannabis plants produce a variety of secondary metabolites, including cannabinoids, terpenoids, and other compounds, which are often secreted by glandular trichomes that occur most abundantly on the floral calyxes and bracts of female plants. Cannabinoids are the most studied group of secondary metabolites in Cannabis. Most exist in two forms, as acids and in neutral (decarboxylated) forms. The acid form is designated by an “A” at the end of its acronym (i.e. THCA). The biologically active forms for human consumption are the neutral forms. Cannabinoids are typically synthesized in the plant as acid forms. Although some decarboxylation can occur in the plant, it can be significantly increased post-harvest by thorough drying of plant material followed by heating it, often by either combustion, vaporization, or heating in an oven. For most cannabinoid producing purposes, only female plants are desired. The presence of male flowers is considered undesirable as pollination is known to reduce cannabinoid yield. For this reason, many Cannabis varieties are grown “sinsemilla” through vegetative (i.e., asexual) propagation.

SUMMARY

The present application relates to a new and distinct variety of Cannabis plant named ‘PTC8510V’. This new Cannabis variety was selected when growing in a cultivated area in Hillsboro, Oregon. ‘PTC8510V’ is commercially known as “Powerhouse,” and is also known by its breeder name 22TP1C-141-105.

‘PTC8510V’ is a selection resulting from pollen receiver plant (‘21TP1B-3-7’, unpatented), which has a THCV content of 14.17% and a THC content of 4.41%, crossed with pollen donor plant (‘22TX1-2-59’, unpatented), which has a THCV content of 10.55% and THC content of 15.65%. 112 seeds of this cross were planted Nov. 7, 2022. ‘PTC8510V’ was discovered and selected as a single plant from F1 seed and was subsequently clonally propagated.

Parent cultivar ‘21TP1B-3-7’ is an early maturing (7-9 weeks) cultivar with low apical dominance, short internode lengths, flowers with moderate trichome density, a THCV content of 10-15%, and a THC content of 4-6%, resulting in a THCV:THC ratio of roughly 3:1. Parent cultivar ‘22TX1-2-59’ is a medium maturing variety (8-9 weeks) with high apical dominance, long internode lengths, flowers with low trichome density, a THCV content of 10-13%, and a THC content of 13-16%, resulting in a THCV:THC ratio of roughly 1:1. For comparison, ‘PTC8510V’ is a medium maturing variety (8-10 weeks) with moderately low apical dominance, long internode length, flowers with moderate trichome density, a THCV content of 14-19%, and a THC content of 2-4%, resulting in a THCV:THC ratio of roughly 5:1.

‘PTC8505V’ is a cultivar that has been commercially available and is of similar pedigree to ‘PTC8510V’, but is not a direct parent or sibling. ‘PTC8510V’ is distinguished from ‘PTC8505V’ at least on the basis that ‘PTC8510V’ has a very high THCV:THC ratio of 5:1, a total THCV of 14.29-16.54%, and a spicy-lime like aroma. In contrast, ‘PTC8505V’ has at most a 3:1 ratio of THCV:THC, a total THCV of about 13.44%, and a piney, grassy aroma.

‘PTC8510V’ can be distinguished from other know Cannabis varieties at least by the following unique combination of characteristics: spicy lime-like aroma with hints of cedar, very high THCV:THC ratio (5:1), total THCV of 14.29-16.54%, total cannabinoid content of about 20%, medium maturity time, moderately low apical dominance, long internode length, and moderate flower trichome density.

‘PTC8510V’ was asexually reproduced for at least three cycles by apical and sub-apical semi-herbaceous stem cuttings in Hillsboro, Oregon. Asexual reproduction of ‘PTC8510V’ shows that the characteristics as herein described come true to form, are firmly fixed, and are established and transmitted through succeeding propagations.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING(S)

FIG. 1 shows an 86-day old greenhouse grown plant of ‘PTC8510V’. The photograph was taken under ambient greenhouse light conditions in September 2024.

FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the flowers of ‘PTC8510V’. The photograph was taken under ambient greenhouse light conditions in September 2024.

The color photographs show typical specimens of the new variety and depict the color as nearly true as is reasonably possible to make the same in a color illustration of this character. It should be noted that colors may vary, for example due to lighting conditions at the time the photograph is taken. Therefore, color characteristics of this new variety should be determined with reference to the observations described herein, rather than from the photograph alone.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The following detailed description of the ‘PTC8510V’ variety is based on observations of asexually reproduced progeny. Measurements were taken 35 days after flower initiation, unless otherwise indicated. The following detailed description concerns plants growing in a greenhouse in Hillsboro, Oregon. All color codes are hexadecimal color codes. Colors were detected using the Color Detector Android® smart phone application by Sadens Studio™ under ambient greenhouse light conditions in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Certain characteristics of this variety may change with changing environmental conditions (such as photoperiod, temperature, moisture, soil conditions, nutrient availability, or other factors) without change to the genotype. Color descriptions and other terminology are used in accordance with their ordinary dictionary descriptions, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

• Scientific name: Cannabis sativa.
• Parentage:
  • • Pollen receiver plant.—‘21TP1B-3-7’.
    • Pollen plant.—‘22TX1-2-59’.
• Plant:
  • • Growth habit.—An upright, tap-rooted annual plant, forming fibrous roots when asexually propagated.
    • Shape.—Simple Erect.
    • Plant height.—1.53-1.74 m.
    • Plant width.—1-1.1 m.
    • Flowering plant height.—23-31 cm.
    • Harvest plant height.—85-101 cm.
    • Plant stretch.—54-76 cm.
    • Plant % stretch.—174-309.
    • Plant wet biomass.—0.51-0.72 kg.
    • Plant wet bucked weight.—0.38-0.61 kg.
    • Proportion female plants.—100% Pistillate.
    • Proportion male plants.—No staminate flowers produced naturally; however, can be induced with stress or ethylene-blocking compounds.
    • Proportion hermaphrodite plants.—Less than 5%.
    • Time to harvest.—10-12 weeks.
    • Hardiness.—Hardy to tolerant of warm and dry conditions without showing stress. Not tolerant to soil oversaturated with water for long periods. This plant has not been tested in outdoor conditions and therefore the USDA hardiness zone is unknown.
• Stem:
  • • Stem shape.—Hollow, ribbed, texture.
    • Stem length.—121-130 cm.
    • Stem strength.—Strong and upright.
    • Stem diameter at base.—2-2.1 cm.
    • Stem color.—C9E782.
    • Stem texture.—Smooth with shallow grooves.
    • Depth of main stem ribs/grooves.—Shallow.
    • Internode length.—3.2-8.4 cm.
• Leaf:
  • • Shape.—Palmately compound.
    • Structure.—Serrated margins, lightly acicular to lanceolate leaflets, tapering to an acuminate apex.
    • Length at maturity (including petiole).—17-21 cm.
    • Average width.—10.5 cm.
    • Arrangement.—Alternate.
    • Margins.—Jaggedly serrate with each tooth apex angled toward leaflet apex.
    • Leaf color (adaxial).—578C67.
    • Leaf color (abaxial).—70926A.
    • Glossiness.—Slightly glossy on the upper surface.
    • Leaf hairs.—Present on both upper and lower surfaces, predominant leaf hairs are glandular capitate-stalked.
    • Petiole color.—d9f577.
    • Petiole anthocyanin color and intensity.—E5D4BA; medium intensity during vegetative stage; strong during flowering stage.
    • Petiole length.—5.2-6.9 cm.
    • Petiole diameter.—1-2 mm.
    • Petiole trichome type.—Predominantly non-glandular.
    • Stipule length at maturity.—6-7 mm.
    • Stipule width at maturity.—<1 mm.
    • Stipule shape.—Linear with slight curvaceous growth.
    • Stipule color.—F0F3B5.
    • Stipule trichome type.—Predominantly glandular capitate-stalked.
    • Number of leaflets.—3-7.
    • Central leaflet length.—13-14 cm.
    • Central leaflet width.—2.6-3.2 cm.
    • Central leaflet length/width ratio.—4-4.8.
    • Central leaflet number of teeth.—22-24.
    • Vein/midrib shape.—Obliquely continuous throughout leaflet.
    • Vein/midrib color.—749855.
    • Typical venation pattern.—Pinnately veined leaflets.
    • Sugar leaf.—Palmately compound, 39 mm long and 32 mm wide. Predominant trichomes are glandular capitate-stalked. Upper-side sugar leaf color is 578C67 and lower-side leaf color is 70926A.
    • Aroma.—Spicy lime-like aroma with hints of cedar.
• Female/pistillate flower:
  • • Inflorescence type.—Elongated compound cymes.
    • Inflorescence position.—Terminal and axillary.
    • Number of inflorescences per plant.—110-170.
    • Length of inflorescences.—2-23 cm.
    • Flower arrangement.—Cymose.
    • Flower shape.—Urceolate.
    • Flower (individual pistillate) length.—4-6 mm.
    • Flower (individual pistillate) depth.—2-4 mm.
    • Flower (compound cyme) diameter.—5-5.5 cm.
    • Petal description.—Apetalous.
    • Bract shape.—Urceolate.
    • Bract color.—Upper surfaces and lower surfaces are 8FBF63.
    • Typical bract number.—3-200 bracts per inflorescence.
    • Bract length.—4-7 mm.
    • Bract width.—2-3 mm.
    • Bract apex and base.—Bracts have a rounded base and caudate apex.
    • Bract texture.—Smooth and covered with sticky trichomes.
    • Bracteoles.—Not present.
    • Calyx shape.—No defined calyx.
    • Corolla.—No defined corolla.
    • Pistils per flower.—One.
    • Pistil length.—8-10 mm.
    • Stigma shape.—Acute.
    • Number of stigmas per flower.—Two.
    • Stigma length.—3-8 mm.
    • Stigma width.—<1 mm.
    • Stigma color.—E8EDB0.
    • Style.—Average length is 5 mm, EB6734 in color at maturity.
    • Trichome shape.—Capitate-Stalked Glandular.
    • Trichome color.—A4B897.
    • Terminal inflorescence shape.—Oblong.
    • Terminal inflorescence color.—2D5416 & EBEEB4.
    • Terminal inflorescence length.—18-22 cm.
    • Terminal inflorescence width.—4-5.5 cm.
    • Pedicel.—Absent.
    • Peduncle length.—5 mm.
    • Peduncle diameter.—2 mm.
    • Peduncle texture.—Lightly ribbed.
    • Peduncle color.—559E57.
    • Peduncle trichome.—Predominantly non-glandular.
    • Staminate shape.—No staminate flowers produced naturally; however, male flower (staminate) can be induced with stress or ethylene-blocking compounds.
    • Numbers of flowers per plant.—Hundreds to thousands flowers per plant, multitudinous, congested with high concentrations on bushier wide inflorescence.
    • Natural blooming time.—Autumn.
    • Fresh flower fragrance.—Citrus/Pine.
• Seed:
  • • Seed shape.—Striped, smooth and globular.
    • Seed size.—1.6-2.3 mm.

TABLE 4
Cannabinoid Content (% dry weight of flower) as determined
by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC).

	Metabolite	Minimum	Maximum

	total CBD	0	0
	total CBDV	0.17	0.19
	total THC	2.61	3.28
	total THCV	14.29	16.54
	total cannabinoids	17.07	19.58

TABLE 5
Terpene Content (% dry weight of flower)
as determined by Gas Chromatography.

	Metabolite	Minimum	Maximum
	alpha-pinene	0.063	0.138
	camphene	0.009	0.011
	beta-pinene	0.073	0.124
	delta-3-carene	<LOQ	<LOQ
	beta-myrcene	0.572	1.739
	alpha-terpinene	<LOQ	<LOQ
	D-limonene	0.119	0.247
	beta-ocimene	0.094	0.342
	p-cymene	<LOQ	<LOQ
	gamma-terpinene	<LOQ	<LOQ
	terpinolene	<LOQ	<LOQ
	linalool	0.044	0.076
	isopulegol	<LOQ	<LOQ
	geraniol	<LOQ	<LOQ
	beta-caryophyllene	0.232	0.309
	alpha-humulene	0.061	0.081
	nerolidol 1	<LOQ	<LOQ
	guaiol	0.01	0.01
	caryophyllene oxide	<LOQ	<LOQ
	alpha-bisabolol	0.034	0.043
	eucalyptol	<LOQ	<LOQ
	nerolidol 2	0.104	0.167
	total terpenes	1.4	3.19

• Top terpenes: Beta-myrcene, beta-ocimene, beta-caryophyllene, and D-limonene.
• Disease/pest resistance: Unknown.
• Molecular markers: A unique combination of 29 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers was identified for variety ‘PTC8510V’. The markers are provided in Table 6. The combination of markers disclosed for ‘PTC8510V’ are unique to this variety, thus these markers can be used, for example, to genotype Cannabis plants to identify variety ‘PTC8510V’.

TABLE 6
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Markers of ‘PTC8510V’.
The following table refers to chromosome positions of the publicly
available Abacus Cannabis reference genome (Csat_AbacusV2,
NCBI assembly accession GCA_025232715.1; also referred
to as “CsaAba2”).

Chromosome	Position	SNP ID	REF	ALT	‘PTC8510V’
CsaAba2_1	37927202	141916_45118	T	C	C/C
CsaAba2_1	42508653	262_823098	G	T	G/G
CsaAba2_1	45592057	121785_197	G	A	A/A
CsaAba2_2	4020302	167_3219271	A	C	A/A
CsaAba2_2	6539925	167_940812	T	C	C/C
CsaAba2_2	78649906	347_110280	T	A	A/A
CsaAba2_2	91155632	158_767308	G	A	G/G
CsaAba2_2	92450873	366_239268	C	T	C/C
CsaAba2_3	14960943	120687_9128	A	G	A/A
CsaAba2_3	53074525	141717_593569	T	A	T/T
CsaAba2_3	76672303	142214_2388819	C	G	G/G
CsaAba2_4	14480629	142704_8363492	T	C	T/T
CsaAba2_4	33805380	142250_6863690	G	A	G/G
CsaAba2_4	68786255	142078_499253	C	A	C/C
CsaAba2_4	72692194	142078_3894722	C	T	T/T
CsaAba2_4	73898859	142078_4996873	T	C	T/T
CsaAba2_5	4965109	142050_513504	C	T	C/C
CsaAba2_5	75432249	422_2180389	A	C	A/A
CsaAba2_6	74959100	164_2634629	A	G	G/G
CsaAba2_8	9471523	171_8847435	C	A	C/C
CsaAba2_8	52088446	141527_667545	A	G	G/G
CsaAba2_9	9551328	424_4709922	G	C	G/G
CsaAba2_9	10568626	424_5631426	A	G	A/A
CsaAba2_X	23172429	142055_4365541	C	T	T/T
CsaAba2_X	51310004	142293_5209347	A	G	G/G
CsaAba2_X	51844299	142293_5615610	C	T	T/T
CsaAba2_X	58645424	132592_6808	G	T	T/T
CsaAba2_X	60242150	102945_11717	T	C	C/C
CsaAba2_X	71949822	421_5214874	C	T	T/T

Claims (1)

We claim:

1. A new and distinct variety of Cannabis plant named ‘PTC8510V’, substantially as illustrated and described herein.

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