Patent ID: 8785720

Claim:
A method of growing a seed from a first Lycopersicon esculentum plant comprising: a) providing said seed of said first Lycopersicon esculentum plant wherein said plant comprises within its genome at least one Ty-1 tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) resistance allele and at least one Mi-1 root knot nematode resistance allele, wherein the at least one Ty-1 allele and the at least one Mi-1 allele are present in the coupling phase at different loci on one chromosome and said plant is resistant against TYLCV and resistant against at least one root knot nematode species selected from the group consisting of Meloidogyne arenaria, Meloidogyne incognita and Meloidogyne javanica ; and b) growing said seed to provide a second Lycopersicon esculentum plant having a fruit.