Hybrid tomato plant HMX3887
A novel hybrid tomato plant, designated HMX3887 and/or HMX3888 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of tomato hybrid HMX3887 and/or HMX3888, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid tomato HMX3887 and/or HMX3888, and to methods for producing a tomato plant by crossing the hybrid tomato HMX3887 and/or HMX3888 with itself or another tomato plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a tomato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other tomato plants derived from the hybrid tomato plant HMX3887 and/or HMX3888.
1. A seed of hybrid tomato designated HMX3887, wherein a representative sample of seed of said hybrid having been deposited under NCIMB No 42362.
2. A tomato plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 1 .
3. The tomato part of claim 2 , wherein the tomato part is selected from the group consisting of: a leaf, a flower, a fruit, an ovule, pollen, a cell, a rootstock, and a scion.
4. A tomato plant, or a part thereof, having all of the characteristics of hybrid HMX3887 listed in Table 1, wherein a representative sample of seed of said hybrid having been deposited under NCIMB No 42362.
5. A tomato plant, or a part thereof, having all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid HMX3887, wherein a representative sample of seed of said hybrid having been deposited under NCIMB No 42362.
6. A tissue culture of regenerable cells produced from the plant or plant part of claim 2 , wherein cells of the tissue culture are produced from a plant part selected from the group consisting of protoplasts, embryos, meristematic cells, callus, pollen, ovules, flowers, seeds, leaves, roots, root tips, anthers, stems, petioles, fruits, cotyledons and hypocotyls, wherein a plant regenerated from the tissue culture has all of the characteristics of hybrid HMX3887 listed in Table 1, and wherein a representative sample of seed of said hybrid having been deposited under NCIMB No 42362.
7. A protoplast produced from the tissue culture of claim 6 , wherein a plant regenerated from the protoplast has all of the characteristics of hybrid HMX3887 listed in Table 1.
8. A tomato plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 6 , said plant having all of the characteristics of hybrid HMX3887 listed in Table 1, wherein a representative sample of seed of said hybrid having been deposited under NCIMB No 42362.
9. A tomato fruit produced from the plant of claim 2 .
10. A method for producing a tomato fruit comprising a) growing the tomato plant of claim 2 to produce a tomato fruit, and b) harvesting said tomato fruit.
11. A tomato fruit produced by the method of claim 10 .
12. A method for producing a tomato seed comprising crossing a first parent tomato plant with a second parent tomato plant and harvesting the resultant tomato seed, wherein said first parent tomato plant and/or second parent tomato plant is the tomato plant of claim 2 .
13. A tomato seed produced by the method of claim 12 , wherein a plant grown from the tomato seed has all of the characteristics of hybrid HMX3887 listed in Table 1.
14. A method for producing a tomato seed comprising self-pollinating the tomato plant of claim 2 and harvesting the resultant tomato seed.
15. A tomato seed produced by the method of claim 14 , wherein a plant grown from the tomato seed has all of the characteristics of hybrid HMX3887 listed in Table 1.
16. A method of vegetatively propagating the tomato plant of claim 2 , said method comprising a) collecting part of the plant of claim 2 and b) regenerating a plant from said part.
17. The method of claim 16 further comprising harvesting a fruit from said plant.
18. A plant obtained from the method of claim 16 , where the plant has all of the characteristics of hybrid HMX3887 listed in Table 1.
19. A fruit obtained from the method of claim 17 , where the plant producing said fruit has all of the characteristics of hybrid HMX3887 listed in Table 1.
20. A method of producing a tomato plant derived from the hybrid variety HMX3887, the method comprising
self-pollinating the plant of claim 2 at least once to produce a progeny plant derived from the hybrid variety HMX3887.
21. The method of claim 20 further comprising the steps of:
(a) crossing the progeny plant derived from hybrid variety HMX3887 with itself or a second plant to produce a seed of progeny plant of subsequent generation;
(b) growing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation from the seed and crossing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation with itself or a different plant; and
(c) repeating steps (a) and (b) to produce a tomato plant further derived from the hybrid tomato variety HMX3887.
22. A method of producing a tomato plant derived from the hybrid variety HMX3887, the method comprising
crossing the plant of claim 2 with a second tomato plant to produce a progeny plant derived from the hybrid variety HMX3887.
23. The method of claim 22 further comprising the steps of:
(a) crossing the progeny plant derived from hybrid variety HMX3887 with itself or another plant to produce a seed of progeny plant of subsequent generation;
(b) growing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation from the seed and crossing the progeny plant of the subsequent generation with itself or a different plant; and
(c) repeating steps (a) and (b) to produce a tomato plant further derived from the hybrid tomato variety HMX3887.
24. A method for producing a transgenic tomato plant, the method comprising crossing the tomato plant of claim 2 with a second tomato plant containing a transgene, thereby producing a transgenic tomato plant.
25. A tomato plant, or a part thereof, produced by the method of claim 24 , wherein the plant comprises the transgene and otherwise essentially all of the characteristics of hybrid HMX3887 listed in Table 1 when grown under the same environmental conditions.
26. A method for producing a transgenic tomato plant, the method comprising transforming at least one transgene into a hybrid tomato HMX3887 plant, a plant part or a plant cell of the HMX3887 plant, a sample seed of said hybrid having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42362, thereby producing a transgenic tomato plant.
27. A plant produced by the method of claim 26 , wherein the plant has the transgene and all of the characteristics of hybrid HMX3887 listed in Table 1.
28. The plant of claim 2 , wherein said plant further comprises a transgene.
29. The plant of claim 2 further comprising at least one single locus conversion, wherein the plant comprises the single locus conversion and otherwise essentially all of the characteristics of hybrid HMX3887 listed in Table 1 when grown under the same environmental conditions.
30. The plant of claim 29 wherein the at least one single locus conversion is an artificially mutated gene.
31. The plant of claim 28 , wherein the transgene confers male sterility in said tomato plant progeny.
32. The plant of claim 29 , wherein the single locus confers male sterility in said tomato plant.