Patent ID: 8987549
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: A01H,C12N

Abstract:
1. A method for selecting a cultivated tomato plant that provides fruit with increased firmness compared with fruit from a control tomato plant, the method comprising: a) detecting in the cultivated tomato plant the presence of QTL3, and b) selecting a cultivated tomato plant that includes the presence of said QTL3, thereby selecting a cultivated tomato plant that provides fruit with increased firmness compared with fruit from a control tomato plant; wherein detecting the presence of said QTL3 in the cultivated tomato plant comprises i) providing a sample of genomic DNA from the cultivated tomato plant, and ii) detecting in the sample of genomic DNA at least one DNA marker including TG353; wherein the increased fruit firmness is from between 1.2 to 2 times greater at the harvesting stage than that of fruit from the control tomato plant.