Hybrid tomato variety H1657
Hybrid tomato variety ‘H1657’ is described. The tomato variety is a ground-culture hybrid tomato variety suitable for machine harvest, and is adaptable to the climactic conditions of regions such as California (USA), Ontario (Canada), Australia, Portugal, Spain, and Italy.
1. Tomato seed designated as ‘H1657’, representative sample of seed having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PM PTA-124673.
2. A plant produced by growing the seed of claim 1 .
3. A plant part from the plant of claim 2 , wherein the plant part comprises at least one cell from tomato variety ‘H1657’.
4. The plant part of claim 3 , wherein the part is selected from the group consisting of leaf, ovule, pollen, cell, rootstock, scion, fruit, cotyledon, meristem, anther, root, root tip, pistil, flower, stem, calli, stalk, hypocotyl, pericarp, and portion thereof.
5. A tomato plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the tomato plant of claim 2 .
6. A plant part from the plant of claim 5 , wherein the plant part comprises at least one cell from tomato variety ‘H1657’.
7. The plant part of claim 6 , wherein the part is selected from the group consisting of leaf, ovule, pollen, cell, rootstock, scion, fruit, cotyledon, meristem, anther, root, root tip, pistil, flower, stem, calli, stalk, hypocotyl, pericarp, and portion thereof.
8. A tomato plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety ‘H1657’, wherein a representative sample of seed has been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-124673.
9. A plant part from the plant of claim 8 , wherein the plant part comprises at least one cell from tomato variety ‘H1657’.
10. The plant part of claim 9 , wherein the part is selected from the group consisting of leaf, ovule, pollen, cell, rootstock, scion, fruit, cotyledon, meristem, anther, root, root tip, pistil, flower, stem, calli, stalk, hypocotyl, pericarp, and portion thereof.
11. Pollen of the plant of claim 2 .
12. An ovule of the plant of claim 2 .
13. A tissue culture of regenerable cells from a plant part of claim 3 , wherein said tissue culture comprises at least one cell of tomato variety ‘H1657’.
14. A tomato plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 13 , the plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety ‘H1657’, wherein a representative sample of seed has been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-124673.
15. A protoplast produced from the tissue culture of claim 13 , wherein a plant regenerated from the protoplast has all the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety ‘H1657’.
16. A method of producing a tomato plant derived from tomato variety ‘H1657’, the method comprising crossing the plant of claim 2 with another tomato plant to produce a F 1 hybrid tomato plant.
17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising harvesting seed from the F 1 hybrid tomato plant.
18. The method of claim 16 , further comprising crossing the F 1 hybrid tomato plant with itself or another plant to produce seed from a progeny plant.
19. The plant of claim 2 , said plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety ‘H1657’, further comprising a transgene.
20. The plant of claim 2 , said plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety ‘H1657’, further comprising a single locus conversion.
21. A method for producing a tomato fruit, the method comprising:
growing the tomato plant of claim 2 to produce a tomato fruit; and
harvesting the tomato fruit.
22. A method for producing a tomato seed comprising:
self-pollinating the tomato plant of claim 2 ; and
harvesting the resultant tomato seed.
23. A method of vegetatively propagating the plant of claim 2 , the method comprising:
obtaining a part of the plant; and
regenerating a plant from the part, the regenerated plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety ‘H1657’.