Tomato variety enhancer
The invention provides a new and distinct hybrid variety of tomato, ENHANCER or NUN 00001 TOR which is especially useful as tomato rootstock.
1. A tomato plant of variety ENHANCER, a representative sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42423.
2. A seed of variety ENHANCER, a representative sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42423.
3. A plant part of the plant of claim 1 .
4. The plant part of claim 3 , further defined as a leaf, pollen, an ovule, a fruit, a scion, a rootstock or a cell.
5. The plant part of claim 3 , further defined as a rootstock.
6. A tomato plant, or a part thereof, which does not differ from the tomato plant of claim 1 in any of the characteristics of Table 1, when grown under the same environmental conditions.
7. A tissue culture of regenerable cells of the plant of claim 1 .
8. The tissue culture according to claim 7 , comprising cells or protoplasts from a plant part selected from the group consisting of meristems, cotyledons, pollen, leaves, anthers, roots, root tips, pistil, flower and stalks.
9. A tomato plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 7 which does not differ from the tomato plant of claim 1 in any of the characteristics of Table 1.
10. A method of vegetatively propagating the plant of claim 1 comprising the steps of:
(a) collecting tissue capable of being propagated from the plant according to claim 1 ;
(b) cultivating said tissue to obtain proliferated shoots; and
(c) rooting said proliferated shoots to obtain rooted plantlets.
11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising growing plants from said rooted plantlets.
12. A method of producing a tomato plant, comprising crossing the plant of claim 1 with a second tomato plant one or more times, and selecting progeny from said crossing.
13. A method of introducing a desired trait into a tomato variety comprising:
(a) crossing a plant of variety ENHANCER, a representative sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42423 with a second tomato plant that comprises a desired trait to produce F1 progeny;
(b) selecting an F1 progeny that comprises the desired trait;
(c) crossing the selected F1 progeny with a plant of variety ENHANCER to produce backcross progeny;
(d) selecting backcross progeny comprising the desired trait and all or essentially all the physiological and morphological characteristic of tomato variety ENHANCER; and optionally
(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny that comprises the desired trait.
14. A method of producing a plant comprising an added desired trait, the method comprising introducing a transgene conferring the desired trait into a plant of tomato variety ENHANCER, a representative sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42423.
15. A method of determining the genotype of the plant of claim 1 comprising obtaining a sample of nucleic acids from said plant and detecting in said nucleic acids a plurality of polymorphisms, thereby determining the genotype of the plant.
16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising the step of storing the results of detecting the plurality of polymorphisms on a computer readable medium.
17. A method for producing a seed of a variety derived from ENHANCER comprising the steps of:
(a) crossing a tomato plant of variety ENHANCER with a second tomato plant, a representative sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42423; and
(b) allowing seed of a variety ENHANCER-derived tomato plant to form.
18. The method of claim 17 further comprising the steps of:
(c) crossing a plant grown from said variety ENHANCER-derived tomato seed with itself or another tomato plant to yield additional variety ENHANCER-derived tomato seed;
(d) growing said additional variety ENHANCER-derived tomato seed of step (c) to yield additional variety ENHANCER-derived tomato plants; and optionally
(e) repeating the crossing and growing steps of (c) and (d) to generate further variety ENHANCER-derived tomato plants.
19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the other tomato plant is of an inbred tomato variety.
20. A tomato plant comprising a rootstock of ENHANCER, seeds of which having been deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 42423; and a scion of another tomato plant.
21. A method of producing a tomato plant comprising the steps of:
(a) obtaining a rootstock from the plant of claim 1 ;
(b) obtaining a scion from a tomato plant;
(c) connection the scion to the rootstock.