Tomato plants having higher levels of resistance to Botrytis

J.A.L. van Kan (Inventor), A. ten Have (Inventor), P. Lindhout (Inventor), H.J. Finkers (Inventor), R. van Berloo (Inventor), A.W. van Heusden (Inventor)

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for detecting a quantitative trait locus (QTL) associated with resistance to Botrytis cinerea in tomato, comprising the steps of crossing a Botrytis-resistant donor tomato plant with a non-resistant, or Botrytis-susceptible, recipient tomato plant, contacting one or more offspring plants with an infective amount of Botrytis, quantitatively determining the disease incidence and/or the rate of lesion growth in said one or more offspring plants, establishing a genetic linkage map that links the observed disease incidence and/or rate of lesion growth to the presence of chromosomal markers of said donor tomato plant in said one or more offspring plants, and assigning to a QTL the contiguous markers on said map that are linked to a reduced disease incidence and/or a reduced lesion growth rate.
Original languageEnglish
Patent numberWO2006046861
Priority date25/10/04
Publication statusPublished - 4 May 2006

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