Tomato Hybrid 'Vespolino'
AssigneeEnza Zaden Beheer B.V.
InventorsFrits Herlaar, Marcellinus Jacobus Johannes Mooij
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Abstract
The invention relates to a new and distinctive tomato hybrid, designated ‘Vespolino,’ to the plants of tomato hybrid ‘Vespolino,’ to the plant parts of tomato hybrid ‘Vespolino’ including the fruit, and for producing a hybrid tomato plant by crossing tomato hybrid ‘Vespolino’ with itself or another tomato line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a tomato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to the methods for producing other tomato lines derived from tomato hybrid ‘Vespolino.’
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A seed of tomato hybrid ‘Vespolino,’ representative sample seed of said hybrid was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-______.
A method of introducing a desired trait into tomato hybrid ‘Vespolino’ wherein the method comprises:
- (a) crossing a ‘Vespolino’ plant, wherein a representative sample of seed was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-______, with a plant of another tomato cultivar that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny plants wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, modified carbohydrate metabolism, modified fruit yield, enhanced nutritional quality, improved processing characteristics and resistance to bacterial disease, fungal disease or viral disease;
- (b) selecting one or more progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants;
- (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the ‘Vespolino’ plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
- (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato hybrid ‘Vespolino’ listed in Table 1;
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- (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) two or more times in succession to produce selected third or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato hybrid ‘Vespolino’ listed in Table 1.
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