strange white

[Jazdoma]

Hello. I found this strange white tomato on my plant. It is almost white like a paper. As you can see from the photo colour of the stem and leaves are much more green than this tomato. It is almost ripe and it looks healthy. It is not white because of the sun, as it is in the shade. It looks little greeny because of light of green leaves but in real it is albino white. Did anyone had such experiance or something similar? Does anyone have advice what to do? What would be my next step?
I include photos:

[Zana]

An albino mutant? No expert here, but am curious what the experts think about your tomato. Seems very unusual to me, especially since it seems like there is a "normal" tomato on the same truss.

[dipchip2000]

Highly unusual to say the least. Does it feel almost ripe as the red closest to it? I also am no expert but out of curiosity I would save the seeds from it before tasting it. If it is not good you can always discard the seeds, but if it is good with saved seeds you might be able to replicate it next year.JMHO
ron

[Jazdoma]

Well, I am not sure if it will stay white. It is on the same truss and nearly as big as the normal one. So I think that is near to be mature . Maybe it is, I do not know. I will leave it on the plant for few more days to see for possible changes in colour. Then more things are going to be clear.

[dustdevil]

I'd vine ripen it and feel the surface to determine when it is ripe. I'd save seed no matter how it tastes this year. Next years generation may taste even better...you never know what weather will do to the taste from year to year.

[Wi-sunflower]

To me that looks like the pre-ripe stage called "waxy". If I'm right, in about 10 days it should be nice and colored just like the rest.

Carol

[freelancer79d]

let us know the outcome on this....

[kd3]

Jazdoma,
Interesting white colour from the photos. Could you tell us what variety it is? I have grown Lutescent/Honour Bright & Turkey Chomp, which start out varied white colours and turn later, but not as true a white as your photos show. kd

[Jazdoma]

Oh, it is noname home tomato which is grown here in this part of Slovenia. It is big salad tomato. I grow it to have something eatable for sure among other tomatoes.
Thanks for all replies, I will wait to see what will be outcome.

[freelancer79d]

If it stays white, save some seeds for me. I'll send a SASE...lol

[carolyn137]

I don't think it will stay that color but there's always the possibility of a somatic mutation.

Lutescent/Honor Bright does start out with pale green fruits which then turn to white, then yellow, then orange and then red at maturity. So a plant with fruits in all stages of ripeness is a pretty interesting sight.

Balance that against the fact that the foliage is a sickly yellow/green color and the blossom petals are somewhat ivory colored.

But that variety probably arose thru what's called a pleiotropic mutation, which means that one mutation changed the expression of many genes.

[Jazdoma]

I found another picture that looks like mine:
http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/Images/chrom...1700-fruit.jpg

and data are here:
http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/Data/Acc/Acc...contains=false

but I do not know what that means. Anyway the time will give me an answer.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Jazdoma

I found another picture that looks like mine:
http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/Images/chrom...1700-fruit.jpg

and data are here:
http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/Data/Acc/Acc...contains=false

but I do not know what that means. Anyway the time will give me an answer.

As I said above it could well be the result of a somatic mutation and that's what the picture and chromosome data from the Rick Center appear to show.

[freelancer79d]

Well I would like seeds all the same...PM me your address and I'll send a SASE.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

As I said above it could well be the result of a somatic mutation and that's what the picture and chromosome data from the Rick Center appear to show.

This AM I went back and checked out the individual genes associated with the green fruit and it does appear to be a spontaneous somatic mutation since it's affecting only one fruit and the other genes in the picture say a dwarf plant and the other one says no anthocyanin.

Apparently there are othe accessions with plants that have all green fruits that never ripen, that are not associated with the non-ripening genes. And it looks like th wv gene is from an accession from Peru.