A lettuce cultivar, designated `Blade`, is disclosed. The invention
relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar `Blade`, to the plants of
lettuce cultivar `Blade` and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by
crossing the cultivar `Blade` with itself or another lettuce cultivar.
The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant
containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the
transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This
invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and
plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar `Blade`, to methods for
producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from
lettuce cultivar `Blade` and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their
parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further
relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by
crossing cultivar `Blade` with another lettuce cultivar.