List of Genes

[GnomeGrown]

http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/Genes.html

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by GnomeGrown

http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/Genes.html

Also known as the Rick Center and it was Dr. Charles Rick, who passed on a few years ago who was the man who brought many of the tomato species from S America back to the US.

When Craig L and I were publishing Off the Vine, an international newsletter about heirlooms, Craig interviewed him for an article and he knew practially nothng about heirloom varieties and as I recall Craig sent him some.

A wonderful man was Dr. Rick.

The genes noted and described are mainly of use to those who hybridize tomatoes. And the accessions can't be requested unless they know you are a professional breeder or a serious amateur one, and documentation is required,

Years ago I had asked Amy Goldman when she went to the Galapagos Islands to please bring me back a certain species I knew grew there, which is supposed to be yellow, actually S. cheesmanii. How she got the fruits thru customs I don't know but she sent me fruits that were red.

Knowing the island they came from I contacted the PGRC, aka Rick Center, and described what I had to Dr, Chatelet and he was able to tell me that what I had was a stable interspecies cross between a currant and ?

I sent Amy back seeds and she named it Sara's Galapagos and of all the currant ones I've grown I still think this one is the best although it's not pure currant but the red frjuits are wee ones and the foliage is about the same as those currants Ihave grown.

All to say that without the PGRC and Dr. Chatelet I wouldn't have known what it was.

Carolyn