Hybrid tomato variety 72-187 RZ

1. A Solanum lycopersicum plant designated 72-187 RZ, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42732.

2. The plant as claimed in claim 1 , which is grown from seed having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42732.

3. A seed that produces the plant of claim 1 .

4. A part of the plant of claim 1 , wherein said part of the plant is suitable for sexual reproduction.

5. The part of the plant as claimed in claim 4 , wherein said part comprises a microspore, pollen, an ovary, an ovule, an embryo sac, or an egg cell.

6. A part of the plant of claim 1 , wherein said part of the plant is suitable for vegetative reproduction.

7. The part of the plant as claimed in claim 6 , wherein said part comprises a cutting, a root, a stem, a cell, or a protoplast.

8. A tissue culture of regenerable cells or protoplasts from the tomato plant of claim 1 .

9. The tissue culture of claim 8 , wherein the cells or protoplasts are obtained from a leaf, pollen, a cotyledon, a hypocotyl, a meristematic cell, a root, a root tip, an anther, a flower, or a stem.

10. A method for producing a progeny plant of the Solanum lycopersicum plant of claim 1 , comprising crossing the plant of claim 1 with itself or with another Solanum lycopersicum plant, harvesting the resultant seed, and growing said seed.

11. A progeny of the Solanum lycopersicum plant of claim 1 , having all the morphological and physiological characteristics as found in tomato variety 72-187 RZ, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42732.

12. A method of producing a Solanum lycopersicum plant derived from hybrid Solanum lycopersicum variety 72-187 RZ, comprising the steps:

a) preparing a progeny plant derived from hybrid Solanum lycopersicum variety 72-187 RZ by crossing the plant of claim 1 with itself or a second Solanum lycopersicum plant;

b) crossing the progeny plant with itself or a second Solanum lycopersicum 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 second Solanum lycopersicum plant; and

d) repeating steps b) and c) for at least 3 more generations to produce a Solanum lycopersicum plant derived from the hybrid Solanum lycopersicum variety 72-187 RZ.

13. A method of producing a tomato fruit comprising:

(a) obtaining the plant according to claim 1 , wherein the plant has been cultivated to develop fruit; and (b) collecting a tomato fruit from the plant.

14. A fruit produced by the method of claim 13 , wherein the fruit comprises all the morphological and physiological characteristics of hybrid tomato variety 72-187-RZ.

15. A method for producing a seed of a 72-187 RZ-derived tomato plant comprising

(a) crossing a plant of tomato variety 72-187 RZ, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42732, with itself or a second tomato plant, and

(b) obtaining seed of a 72-187 RZ-derived tomato plant.

16. The method of claim 15 further comprising (c) crossing a plant grown from 72-187 RZ-derived tomato seed with itself or with a second tomato plant to yield additional 72-187 RZ-derived tomato seed, (d) growing the additional 72-187 RZ-derived tomato seed of step (c) to yield additional 72-187 RZ-derived tomato plants, and (e) repeating the crossing and growing of steps (c) and (d) for an additional 3-10 generations to generate further 72-187 RZ-derived tomato plants.

17. A method of determining the genotype of a plant of tomato variety 72-187 RZ, representative seed of which has been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42732, or a first generation progeny thereof, comprising

obtaining a sample of nucleic acids from said plant, or a first generation progeny thereof,

comparing said nucleic acids to a sample of nucleic acids obtained from a reference plant, and

detecting a plurality of polymorphisms between the two nucleic acid samples, thereby determining the genotype of a plant of tomato variety 72-187 RZ.

18. The method of claim 17 additionally comprising the step of

storing the results of detecting the plurality of polymorphisms on a computer readable medium, or transmitting the results of detecting the plurality of polymorphisms to a computer readable medium.

19. A Solanum lycopersicum plant having all the morphological and physiological characteristics of the Solanum lycopersicum plant of claim 1 , wherein the morphological and physiological characteristics are as found in tomato variety 72-187RZ, representative seed of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 42732.