Tomato plants that exhibit resistance to
View Patent ↗The present invention relates to tomato plants that exhibit resistance to Botrytis cinerea and methods for developing new inbreds, hybrid, apomictic and genetically engineered tomato plants that possess resistance to Botrytis cinerea and having commercially desirable characteristics.
1. A Botrytis resistant Lycopersicon esculentum plant having a genome comprising at least one region on chromosome 10 having at least one gene associated with Botrytis resistance, wherein said at least one region has been introgressed into the genome of said Botrytis resistant plant from another Lycopersicon species and said at least one introgressed region on chromosome 10 comprises a molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: TG408, TG285, CT260C, CT112B, CT203, CT42, h, PGAL, TG420, CD34B and CT20 and said chromosome 10 further comprises an upper region comprising a homozygous Lycopersicon esculentum molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: CT113C, TG271, TG230, TG313, hy, TG399A, CT105B, CT41, TG122, CAB7, TG63, TG395, nor, CT16, CD77, TG303, CD56, CT125, CT60, TG540, CAB8, u, TG566, PTC1, CT234, TG148, CD38A, TG12 and TG596 and a lower region comprising a Lycopersicon esculentum molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: CD72, CD34A, CT57, CP49, CP65B, 12, CT124, TG241, TG229, TG403, CT 95, TG663, HTS1C, TG63, TG206A, CT238, CT240, CD5, TG233 and CD32B, wherein said Botrytis resistance is located between said upper region and said lower region.
2. The Botrytis resistant plant of claim 1 , wherein said plant is a hybrid.
3. The Botrytis resistant plant of claim 1 , wherein said another Lycopersicon species is Lycopersicon hirsutum.
4. A Botrytis resistant hybrid Lycopersicon esculentum plant having a genome comprising at least one region on chromosome 10 associated with Botrytis resistance, wherein said at least one region has been introgressed into the genome of said Botrytis resistant plant from another Lycopersicon species and further wherein said at least one introgressed region on chromosome 10 comprises a molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: TG408, TG285, CT260C, CT112B, CT203, CT42, h, PGAL, TG420, CD34B and CT20 and said chromosome 10 further comprises an upper region comprising a homozygous L. esculentum molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: CT113C, TG271, TG230, TG313, hy, TG399A, CT105B, CT41, TG122, CAB7, TG63, TG395, nor, CT16, CD77, TG303, CD56, CT125, CT60, TG540, CAB8, u, TG566, PTC1, CT234, TG148, CD38A, TG12 and TG596 and a lower region comprising a L. esculentum molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: CD72, CD34A, CT57, CP49, CP65B, 12, CT124, TG241, TG229, TG403, CT 95, TG663, HTS1C, TG63, TG206A, CT238, CT240, CD5, TG233 and CD32B, wherein said Botrytis resistance is located between said upper region and said lower region.
5. The Botrytis resistant hybrid plant of claim 4 , wherein said another Lycopersicon species is Lycopersicon hirsutum.
6. A Botrytis resistant Lycopersicon esculentum hybrid plant having a genome comprising at least one region associated with Botrytis resistance, wherein said at least one region comprises a molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: TG408, TG285, CT260C, CT112B, CT203, CT42, h, PGAL, TG420, CD34B and CT20 from Lycopersicon hirsutum and said genome further comprises an upper region comprising a homozygous Lycopersicon esculentum molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: CT113C, TG271, TG230, TG313, hy, TG399A, CT105B, CT41, TG122, CAB7, TG63, TG395, nor, CT16, CD77, TG303, CD56, CT125, CT60, TG540, CAB8, u, TG566, PTC1, CT234, TG148, CD38A, TG12 and TG596 and a lower region comprising a Lycopersicon esculentum molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: CD72, CD34A, CT57, CP49, CP65B, 12, CT124, TG241, TG229, TG403, CT 95, TG663, HTS1C, TG63, TG206A, CT238, CT240, CD5, TG233 and CD32B, wherein said Botrytis resistance is located between said upper region and said lower region.
7. The Botrytis resistant Lycopersicon esculentum hybrid plant of claim 6 , wherein said molecular marker of said at least one region associated with Botrytis resistance is TG408.
8. A Botrytis resistant Lycopersicon esculentum hybrid plant of claim 6 , wherein said molecular marker of said at least one region associated with Botrytis resistance is CT20.
9. A Botrytis resistant Lycopersicon esculentum hybrid plant having a genome comprising at least one region on chromosome 10 having at least one gene associated with Botrytis resistance, wherein said at least one region on chromosome 10 comprises a Lycopersicon hirsutum molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: TG408, TG285, CT2600, CT112B, CT203, CT42, h, PGAL, TG420, CD34B and CT20 and said Botrytis resistant plant further comprises an upper region comprising a homozygous L. esculentum molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: CT113C, TG271, TG230, TG313, hy, TG399A, CT105B, CT41, TG122, CAB7, TG63, TG395, nor, CT16, CD77, TG303, CD56, CT125, CT60, TG540, CAB8, u, TG566, PTC1, CT234, TG148, CD38A, TG12 and TG596 and a lower region comprising a L. esculentum molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: CD72, CD34A, CT57, CP49, CP65B, 12, CT124, TG241, TG229, TG403, CT 95, TG663, HTS1C, TG63, TG206A, CT238, CT240, CD5, TG233 and CD32B, wherein said Botrytis resistance is located between said upper Region and said lower region.
10. A hybrid Lycopersicon esculentum plant having as one of its ancestors a parental Lycopersicon esculentum plant, said hybrid Lycopersicon esculentum having a genome comprising at least one region on chromosome 10 having at least one gene associated with Botrytis resistance, wherein said at least one region has been introgressed into the genome of said Botrytis resistant plant from another Lycopersicon species and said at least one introgressed region on chromosome 10 comprises a molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: TG408, TG285, CT260C, CT112B, CT203, CT42, h, PGAL, TG420, CD34B and CT20 and said chromosome 10 further comprises an upper region comprising a homozygous Lycopersicon esculentum molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: CT113C, TG271, TG230, TG313, hy, TG399A, CT105B, CT41, TG122, CAB7, TG63, TG395, nor, CT16, CD77, TG303, CD56, CT125, CT60, TG540, CAB8, u, TG566, PTC1, CT234, TG148, CD38A, TG12 and TG596 and a lower region comprising a Lycopersicon esculentum molecular marker selected from the group consisting of: CD72, CD34A, CT57, CP49, CP65B, 12, CT124, TG241, TG229, TG403, CT 95, TG663, HTS1C, TG63, TG206A, CT238, CT240, CD5, TG233 and CD32B wherein said Botrytis resistance is located between said upper region and said lower region.
11. The hybrid Lycopersicon esculentum plant of claim 10 , wherein said at least one introgressed molecular marker is TG408.
12. The hybrid Lycopersicon esculentum plant of claim 10 , wherein said at least one introgressed molecular marker is CT20.
13. The hybrid Lycopersicon esculentum plant of claim 10 , wherein said another Lycopersicon species is selected from the group consisting of: Lycopersicon cerasiforme, Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium, Lycopersicon cheesmanii, Lycopersicon parviflorum, Lycopersicon chmielewskii, Lycopersicon hirsutum, Lycopersicon penellii, Lycopersicon peruvianum, Lycopersicon chilense and Solanum lycopersicoides.
14. The hybrid Lycopersicon esculentum plant of claim 10 , wherein said another Lycopersicon species is a Lycopersicon hirsutum.
15. The seed of the plant of claim 1 .
16. A fruit of the plant of claim 1 .
17. The seed of the hybrid plant of claim 4 .
18. The fruit of the hybrid plant of claim 4 .
19. The seed of the hybrid plant of claim 6 .
20. The fruit of the hybrid plant of claim 6 .
21. The seed of the hybrid plant of claim 9 .
22. The fruit of the hybrid plant of claim 9 .