Tomato variety enhancer
AssigneeNunhems B.V.
InventorBarak Ben David
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Abstract
The invention provides a new and distinct hybrid variety of tomato, ENHANCER or NUN 00001 TOR which is especially useful as tomato rootstock.
Claims21
A tomato plant of variety ENHANCER, a representative sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42423.
A seed of variety ENHANCER, a representative sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42423.
A method of introducing a desired trait into a tomato variety comprising:
- (a) crossing a plant of variety ENHANCER, a representative sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42423 with a second tomato plant that comprises a desired trait to produce F1 progeny;
- (b) selecting an F1 progeny that comprises the desired trait;
- (c) crossing the selected F1 progeny with a plant of variety ENHANCER to produce backcross progeny;
- (d) selecting backcross progeny comprising the desired trait and all or essentially all the physiological and morphological characteristic of tomato variety ENHANCER;
- and optionally
- (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny that comprises the desired trait.
A method of producing a plant comprising an added desired trait, the method comprising introducing a transgene conferring the desired trait into a plant of tomato variety ENHANCER, a representative sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42423.
A method for producing a seed of a variety derived from ENHANCER comprising the steps of:
- (a) crossing a tomato plant of variety ENHANCER with a second tomato plant, a representative sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42423;
- and
- (b) allowing seed of a variety ENHANCER-derived tomato plant to form.
A tomato plant comprising a rootstock of ENHANCER, seeds of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42423;
- and a scion of another tomato plant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.