Cherry tomatoes, L.esculentum var. The chance of genetic exchange outside the crop is therefore small and outside the species remote. The potential transfer of genetic material to micro-organisms in the soil is considered to be very low against a background of the natural occurrence of kanamycin resistance in soil microbes. Germination of seed may give rise to volunteer plants in the next crop which will be destroyed by normal agricultural practice. Due to its tropical origin, the tomato is very sensitive to temperatures below 10 o C and winter cold will kill the majority of volunteer seedlings following harvest.
Tomato flowers are unattractive to insect pollinators due to the limited availability of pollen.
No consistent differences were found during trial releases in the susceptibility of modified and non-modified crops to pests and diseases. No environmental impact on non-target organisms is anticipated. The Commission requested the Scientific Committee on Plants 'to consider whether there is any reason to believe that the placing on the market of the tomato line TGT7F for use as any other processing tomato is likely to cause any adverse effects on human health and the environment'.