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May 4, 2007 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Florida
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Pubescent potato leaf???
Has any one sucessfully crossed a pubscent tomato with a potato leaf and gotten a tomato with both traits in any of the f generations? My plan was to cross smokey mountain red with some potato leaf possibly aunt g's gold or lucky cross and get a pubscent potato leaf tomato. Does this sound like it will work?? Are these good tomatos to use?? Is there a better pubscent tomato out there?? If use lucky cross is there still a chance that I will get bi-color tomato in one of f generations?? Any suggestions or comments would be appreacted
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May 4, 2007 | #2 |
Tomatoville® Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Hendersonville, NC zone 7
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This has been done successfully before - Tad Smith, formerly of Virginia, created a variety called Fuzzy Bomb, which was a pubescent (angora-type foliage) potato leaf type with large red fruit (I think he crossed Angora with Prudens Purple or something like that - would have to dig through my old mail). I only grew it once, and never did grow out saved seed.
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May 5, 2007 | #3 |
Crosstalk™ Forum Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: 8407 18th Ave West 7-203 Everett, Washington 98204
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Pubescent or woolly genes in tomatoes have been around for quite a while. The trick I have found was to find one that was true breeding without any lethal consequences. I first released my Elberta Girl tomato variety that had that trait.
I have grown my own potato leaf, woolly strains of tomatoes for quite a few years too. The Brandy Stripe segregations that I sent Sahin in Holland in 1996 were potato leaf/woolly. I remember seeing in his greenhouse in Holland the three types; potato leaf/fully woolly, potato leaf/1/2 woolly, and potato leaf/ non woolly. The Sahin people released the non pubescent type as Vintage Wine. For some reason they must not have found the woolly potato leaf type interesting enough. I have many true breeding and some still segregating potato leaf /woollies. Some dwarf, some yellows, some orange, some bicolored, green fleshed, etc. Nobody is interested in such curiosities but I still use them in my breeding program here in Washington State. I think there is a use for the heterozygous form in outstanding hybrids for use in insect protection and creating pretty tomato vines. I have some potato leaf Cherokee Purple breeding lines which are slotted to be crossed with potato/wo lines this year. Tom Wagner |
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