Tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF
Tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF is disclosed, as well as seeds and plants and fruits thereof.
1 . A plant or seed of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF, wherein a representative sample of seeds of said tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44074.
2 . A plant part of the plant of claim 1 , wherein said plant part is a fruit, a leaf, a scion, a root, a rootstock, or a cutting.
3 . A seed that produces the plant of claim 1 .
4 . A tomato plant or a part thereof having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant of claim 1 or part thereof when grown under the same environmental conditions.
5 . A tissue culture or cell culture of regenerable cells of the plant of claim 1 or plant part thereof, wherein said cells are obtained from tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF and are suitable for regeneration into a plant having all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF.
6 . A method of producing the plant of claim 1 or a part thereof, said method comprising vegetatively propagating of at least a part of the plant of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF, wherein said part is a cutting, a cell culture, or a tissue culture, and wherein a representative sample of seeds of said tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44074.
7 . A vegetatively propagated plant, or a part thereof, produced by the method of claim 6 , wherein the plant or the part thereof has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF when grown under the same environmental conditions, and wherein a representative sample of seeds of said tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44074.
8 . A method of producing a tomato plant, said method comprising crossing the plant of claim 1 with a second tomato plant at least once, producing a progeny tomato plant from said crossing, and optionally allowing the progeny tomato plant to form seed.
9 . A method of making doubled haploids of the plant of claim 1 , said method comprising making double haploid cells from haploid cells of the plant or plant part of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF, wherein a representative sample of seeds of said tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44074.
10 . A plant comprising the scion or rootstock of claim 2 .
11 . A container comprising the plant or seed of claim 1 .
12 . A food, a feed, or a processed product comprising the plant part of claim 2 , wherein the plant part comprises at least a regenerable cell of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF.
13 . A method of introducing a desired trait into the plant of claim 1 , said method comprises transforming the plant of claim 1 with a transgene that confers the desired trait, wherein the transformed plant comprises the desired trait and otherwise has all the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF, and wherein the desired trait is male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, pest resistance, disease resistance, environmental stress tolerance, modified carbohydrate metabolism, or modified protein metabolism.
14 . A method of producing a tomato fruit, said method comprising growing the plant of claim 1 until it sets at least one fruit, and collecting the fruit.
15 . A tomato fruit produced by the method of claim 14 .
16 . A method of producing a modified tomato plant having a desired trait, said method comprises mutating a plant or plant part of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF and selecting the plant with the desired trait, wherein a representative sample of seeds of said tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44074, wherein the modified tomato plant has the desired trait and otherwise has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF, and wherein the desired trait is male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, pest resistance, disease resistance, environmental stress tolerance, modified carbohydrate metabolism, or modified protein metabolism.
17 . A method of producing a tomato seed, said method comprises crossing tomato plants and harvesting the resultant seed, wherein at least one tomato plant in the cross is the plant of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF of claim 1 , and wherein a representative sample of seeds of said tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44074.
18 . A method of introducing a single locus conversion into the plant of claim 1 , comprising:
a. crossing the plant of claim 1 with a second tomato plant comprising a desired single locus conversion to produce F1 progeny plants;
b. selecting the F1 progeny plants that have the single locus conversion to produce selected F1 progeny plants;
c. crossing selected F1 progeny plants with tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF to produce backcross progeny plants;
d. selecting backcross progeny plants that have the single locus conversion and otherwise comprise all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF to produce selected backcross progeny plants; and
e. repeating steps (c) and (d) one or more times in succession to produce selected second or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the single locus conversion and otherwise comprise all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF, wherein a representative sample of seeds of said tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44074.
19 . A method of producing a tomato plant derived from the plant of claim 1 , comprising:
a. producing a progeny tomato plant from tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF by crossing the plant of claim 1 with itself or with a second tomato plant;
b. crossing the progeny plant with itself or a different tomato plant to produce a seed of a progeny plant of a subsequent generation;
c. growing a progeny plant of the subsequent generation from said seed and crossing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation with itself or a another tomato plant; and
d. repeating steps (b) and (c) for at least one more generation to produce a tomato plant derived from tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF.
20 . A method of developing a tomato plant in a tomato breeding program, said method comprises applying plant breeding techniques to the plant of claim 1 or part thereof.
21 . A method of producing a modified tomato plant, said method comprising mutating a target gene by targeted gene editing in a tomato plant or a plant part of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF, wherein said target gene modifies a desired trait, wherein the desired trait is male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, pest resistance, disease resistance, environmental stress tolerance, modified carbohydrate metabolism, or modified protein metabolism, and wherein a representative sample of seeds of said tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF has been deposited under Accession Number NCIIB 44074.
22 . A modified tomato plant produced by the method of claim 21 , wherein said plant comprises the desired trait and otherwise has all the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety NUN 08801 TOF.