Patent ID: 9665684
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: A01H,C12N,G16B

Claim:
1. A solanum lycopersicum tomato fruit with significantly increased fruit firmness at the harvesting stage linked to a genetic element in a cultivated solanum lycopersicum tomato plant producing said tomato fruit, wherein said firmness is up to 4 times greater than that of fruit from a control Solanum lycopersicum tomato plant which does not have the said genetic element, wherein said genetic element is the genetic element of solanum lycopersicum Q7774 deposited with NCIMB under accession number 41949, and wherein the said genetic element of Q7774 is linked to at least one DNA marker in the cultivated plant, said at least one DNA marker is selected from the group consisting of: a) TG599, which can be detected by a forward primer of SEQ ID NO:19 and a reverse primer of SEQ ID NQ:20; b) NT3374, which can be detected by a forward primer of SEQ ID NO:7 and a reverse primer of SEQ ID NO:8; c) TG246, which can be detected by a forward primer of SEQ ID NO:17 and a reverse primer of SEQ ID NO:18: and d) NT5880, which can be detected by a forward primer of SEQ ID NO:9 and a reverse primer of SEQ ID NO:10.