Tainan, Taiwan
August 7, 2009
Source:
AVRDC - The World Vegetable
Center - Newsletter
Sharing techniques and genetic material between AVRDC – The
World Vegetable Center and Qingdao Academy of Agricultural
Sciences in the People’s Republic of China is bearing fruit: In
late June, Prof. Huang Ting-Ting,
tomato breeder at the Qingdao Academy of Agricultural Sciences,
announced the development of two tomato lines, F2-21 and F2 X
04-3, that are derived from AVRDC’s late blight resistant inbred
line CLN2037, with resistance to late blight, Tomato mosaic
virus (ToMV), Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and leaf mold.
These two new lines passed the examination by a governmental
identification committee on 27 June 2009 and they were approved
for release to farmers to allow for more efficient disease
control. In addition to disease resistance, the new lines also
show tolerance to low temperatures and low light intensity.
These features make
them suitable for cultivation in protected greenhouses,
particularly in northern China. The line F2-21 has been named
‘Shatong.’
This recent breeding success will not be an isolated case:
Several other institutes in the People’s Republic of China are
currently working on new tomato varieties with resistance to
late blight and expect to release them soon.
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