Patent ID: 6134829
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: A01G

Abstract:
A method for cultivation of tomatoes resulting in essentially simultaneous ripening of the tomatoes, facilitating once over manual or mechanical harvesting, which comprises:cultivating male sterile tomato plants, said male sterile plants being from lines 599MSA and 606MSA, the seeds of said lines are deposited at the ATCC under deposit designation number PTA-1613 and PTA-1614, respectively, said lines have a male sterile gene ms 10/35 linked with the marker gene anthocyanin absent (aa) said marker gene allowing phenotypic selection,identifying and eliminating any cultivated male fertile plants through said phenotypic selection,inducing parthenocarpy in said male sterile plants at a defined stage of development by application of a growth regulator or auxin transport inhibitor resulting in a quantitative yield dispersal of about 2 to about 3 days.