Why do I cross tomatoes and talk about it?

[vegomatic]

Hi Mouse,

I've located Oregon Centennial in the ARS/GRIN database. Seeds are listed as available for distribution. I was unable to locate King's Breeder. I'll send you the link in a PM.

-Ed

-Ed

[Tom Wagner]

Mouse,

Your questions appreciated, but beware, I will not answer well enough for any body's satisfaction. Sorry!

I have the Centennial in my collections and use it and the descendant Legend in my Late Blight breeding efforts. I have not used the King's Breeder, however.

My work with tomatoes has included for many decades the
L. chmielewskii, L. hirsutum, types and their crosses, but this year I am only growing a few derived segregating populations.

So many patents have been applied for in tomato sugar research that it is impossible to keep up with all of the findings let alone accessing the patented germplasm. Below is a case in point:

1 US5434344 Sucrose accumulating tomato technology 2 US6072106 Sucrose accumulating tomato cultivar 3 US5658773 Tomato acid invertase gene 4 US5569829 Transformed tomato plants 5 US5817913 Method for breeding tomatoes with superior taste characteristics and product of the method 6 US5908975 Accumulation of fructans in plants by targeted expression of bacterial levansucrase 7 US20040205845 Transgenic Plants Showing an Increased Accumulation of Starch 8 US6720485 Controlling starch synthesis 9 US5665579 Invertase genes and uses thereof 10 US4745186 2,3,4-triacylhexoses and mixtures thereof 11 US4943563 2,3,4-triacylhexose insect repellants 12 US5576428 Invertase gene(s) and uses thereof 13 US20050250192 Production of chemicals from lignocellulose, biomass or sugars 14 US6031154
Fructokinase genes and their use in metabolic engineering of fruit sweetness





1 US20020123623 Transcription factor controlling phenylpropanoid biosynthesis pathway 2 US20050005333 Production of increased oil and protein in plants by the disruption of the phenylpropanoid pathway 3 US20030126649 Inbred tomato line 294 4 US6861580 Inbred tomato line 294 5 US20040123351 Mutant allele of tomato 6 US20050289674 Novel tomato plants 7 US7112727 Mutant allele of tomato 8 US6303847 DNA encoding a transcription factor controlling phenylpropanoid biosynthesis pathway

Search some of the above patents for your question below

herefore also on phenylpropanoid and isoprenoid pathways and gene families, my major focus.

Good grief! How do you expect me to know all this? We know that tomatoes have the unique ability to divert large amounts of carbon from aromatic amino acid metabolism into the biosynthesis of natural products based on a phenylpropane skeleton. These diverse phenylpropanoid compounds which include flavonoids, lignin, coumarins and many small phenolic molecules, have a multiplicity of functions in structural support, pigmentation, defense and signaling. Signaling that I know of is similar to systemic signaling in tomato plant wounds for defense against insect feeding.

Mouse, I simply cannot answer your questions in the time I am giving it, nor can I make it intelligible much beyond my own limited attention span. Maybe by giving you some of these links, you might simplify what you are seeking for the benefit of everyone else.

The potato database by Berloo and Hutton are much used by me, along with my Dos program pedigree database that I augment often.

Since I don't have a public search friendly tomato pedigree database, I devised my own from the dos program for potatoes. I substituted tomato data for potatoes and it works for me. I have over 100 varieties in some of my pedigreed tomato creation.

I searched the Orson Cannon name on potatoes and all I find is the nematode work.

Tom Wagner