Allelism tests: in is allelic to com, dp is allelic to dgt and pu - 2 is allelic to al . Jones, David A . and Jones, Jonathan D . G . The Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre for Plant Science Research, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 6PD, U . K . During a study designed to integrate the classical and RFLP maps of the short arm of chromosome I (reported by Balint - Kurti et al . 1995), a number of markers that had been previously suggested to map to chromosome 1 were assessed . The phenotypes conferred by two of these markers, in (indiga, Stubbe 1958) and dp (drooping leaf, Yu and Yeager 1960), were found to resemble those conferred by two known chromosome 1 markers, com (complicata) and dgt (diageotropica), respectively . In a separate study comparing markers affecting anthocyanin production, the phenotype conferred by pu - 2 (pulvinata - 2, Stubbe 1965) was found to resemble that conferred by al (anthocyanin loser) . Experiments were carried out to determine the allelism or otherwise of these markers . To test for allelism between in and com , the cross GCR703 in - imb x CLS3483 au tl - com was performed and the F 1 progeny were found to be wild type for imb and au tl , confirming the cross, but to have the indiga/complicata phenotype, indicating allelism between in and com . To test for allelism between dp and dgt , the cross LA2605 scf - dp r - wf c gs marm a hp x CLS4783 dgt - rvt was performed and the F 1 progeny were found to be wild type for scf , c, a and rvt , confirming the cross, but to have the drooping leaf/diageotropica phenotype, indicating allelism between dp and dgt . Finally, to test for allelism between pu - 2 and al , the cross LA973 pu - 2 u x GCR382 al u + was performed using LA973 as the female parent and the F 1 , progeny were found to have the putida/anthocyanin loser phenotype, indicating allelism between pu - 2 and al , and to have non uniform fruit ( u + ), confirming the cross . Regardless of the order of precedence in the discovery and naming of these mutations, we suggest that the well known names com, dgt and al should be retained in preference to the more obscure names in, dp and pu - 2 , which should be altered to com in dgt dp and al pu - 2 , to reflect both their origin and their location at the well mapped com, dgt and al loci , respectively . Tomato stocks used GCR stocks were obtained from John Maxon - Smith, HRI, Littlehampton, UK . LA and 2 - stocks were obtained from Charles Rick, Tomato Genetics Stock Centre, Davis CA, USA . CLS3483= an F 3   Line derived from an au t l com F 2 segregant of the cross CLS2531 au t l Tm - 2 2 x LA664 com CLS2531= an F 3 line derived from an au t l   Tm - 2 2 F 2 segregant of the cross 2 - 655A au   l x GCR758 Tm - 2 2 CLS4783= an F 3 line derived from a dgt rvt F 2 segregant of the cross LA1186 au t l dgt inv scf x LA1799 rvt Literature cited Balint - Kurti, P . J . , Jones, D . A . and Jones J . D . G . 1995 . Theor . Appl . Genet . 90: 17 - 26 . Stubbe, H . 1958 . Mill . II . Kulturpfl . 6: 89 - 115 . Stubbe, H . 1958 . Mill . II . Kulturpfl . 13: 517 - 544 . Yu, S . and