Klee tomato flavor work

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If you do a search for "Klee tomato taste", you will find several articles about ongoing work to breed flavor into commercial tomatoes using heirloom varieties as genetic sources.

http://hos.ufl.edu/kleeweb/

There are several links on the homepage that are worth looking through. Several other links will show up in a google search that give some detail to the work that is being done.

I took a look at the varieties they are growing and just shook my head. Most of them are seriously limited for flavor. An email to Harry Klee got a response that he would love to have some other varieties to trial. Here is what I sent. Note that several of these are selected for other useful traits besides just flavor.

1884
Bear Creek
Black Krim Cherry
Brandywine (Sudduth strain)
Cherokee Jumbo
Clackamas Blueberry
Crnkovic Yugoslavian
Daniels
Eva Purple Ball
Goose Creek
Green Giant
J.D.'s Special C-Tex
KBX
Kosovo
Lucky Cross
Lynnwood
Nepal
Neves Azorean Red
Perth Pride
Picardy
Piennolo del Vesuvio
Polish
Rose de Berne
Strawberry Margarita
Stump of the World
Yoders German Yellow

I also included a pack of R.G. Bold Red and R.G. Bold Green with information to test them for late blight tolerance.

DarJones