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NETHERLANDS – MOULD RESISTANT TOMATOES
RESEARCHER DEVELOPS TOMATO WITH RESISTANCE TO GREY MOULD
20 April 2007. Source: CropBiotech Update Knowledge Center knowledge.center@ISAAA.ORG
New tomato varieties resistant to grey mould (Botrytis cinerea) will be coming soon, thanks to the work of Richard Finkers, a doctorate student from Wangenin University. Finkers started off by crossing the grey mould-resistant wild tomato Solanum habrochaites LYC4 with the susceptible S. lycopersicum cv. Moneymaker, and identifying two areas with resistant genes in the DNA. Through DNA-marker technology, Finkers was able to track the presence of resistance factors in tomato plants.
The leading company De Ruiter Seeds is already applying these methods in its breeding program.
Read the news release at
http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_6ZPA4C_Eng
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