Patent ID: 11930779
Assignee: NUNHEMS B.V.
Field: Food chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 26:
27. A method of introducing a single locus conversion into the plant of claim 1, comprising:
(a) crossing the plant of claim 1 with a second tomato plant comprising a desired single locus conversion to produce F1 progeny plants;
(b) selecting the F1 progeny plants that have the single locus conversion to produce selected F1 progeny plants;
(c) crossing selected F1 progeny plants with tomato variety NUN 00316 TOP to produce backcross progeny plants;
(d) selecting backcross progeny plants that have the single locus conversion and otherwise comprise all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety NUN 00316 TOP to produce selected backcross progeny plants; and
(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) one or more times in succession to produce selected second or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the single locus conversion and otherwise comprise all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of tomato variety NUN 00316 TOP, wherein a representative sample of seed of said tomato variety has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44234.