Literature Cited: Chetelat, R . T . , C . M . Rick and J . W . DeVema . 1989 . Isozyme analysis, chromosome pairing, and fertility of Lycopersicon esculentum x Solanum lycopersicoides diploid backcross hybrids . Genome 32:783 - 790 . Farley, J . D . , W . L . George and E . A . Kerr . 1976 . Resistant to Botrytis cinerea . TGC 26:7 . Rick, C . M . , J . W . DeVerna, R . T . Chetelat and M . A . Stevens . 1986 . Meiosis in sesquidiploid hybrids of Lycopersicon esculentum and Solanum lycopersicoides . Proc . Natl . Acad . Sci . U . S . A . 83:3580 - 3583 . A new source of PVY resistance Green S . K . and P . Hanson Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center, Shanhua (AVRDC), Tainan 741, Taiwan, R . O . C . A total of 169 Lycopersicon accessions, including L . esculentum, L pimpinellifolium, L . peruvianum, L . glandulosum and L . hirsutum have been screened for reaction to potato virus Y (PVY) of the AVRDC . A new source of resistance to PVY was identified: AVRDC accession L3683 ( L hirsutum PI 365904) from Ecuador . Inoculation was done mechanically, at the 2 - 3 leaf stage with strain PVY - 0 and plants were evaluated visually and by ELISA at 14 and 42 days after inoculation . The susceptible check, L esculentum cv TK 70, inoculated at the same time was 100% susceptible at 14 days after inoculation, whereas 240 plants of L3683 were resistant (no symptoms, and ELISA negative) at 42 days after the inoculation . Seeds of L3683 were also sent to Australia (J . E . Thomas), Hawaii (J . Cho) and California (J . Kao) and to Thailand (K . Kruapan) for testing with local strains/isolates . In all locations, L3683 was resistant . This is interesting since the only other known PVY resistance source, L . hirsutum PI 247087 was found resistant to Taiwan and Australian isolates, but susceptible to the Hawaii and Thailand isolate .   F 1 plants of CLN 236 ( L esculentum ) x L3683 were susceptible, suggesting that PVY resistance in L3683 is recessive . An inheritance study is underway . Literature cited: Thomas, J . E . 1981 . Australas Plant Pathology, 10, 67 - 68 . A functional Cf - 4 gene for resistance to Cladosporium fulvum Cke . is present in Cf - 8 and Cf - 11 lines Haanstra, J . a , Thomas, CA . b , Jones, J . D . G b and Lindhout, P . a a Dept . Plant Breeding, Graduate School of Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen Agricultural University, P . O Box 386, 6700 AJ, Wageningen, The Netherlands b Sainsbury Lab . , John Innes Centre for Plant Science Research, Colney lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK In the history of tomato breeding for resistance to Cladosporium fulvum many genes have been identified and designated, Cf - 1 to Cf - 24 . Lindhout et . al . (1989) showed that there was no race that could distinguish between Cf - 4 and Cf - 8 . Moreover, it appeared that these genes were allelic and therefore indistinguishable (Gerlagh et . al . , 1989) . One of . the ancestors of the Cf - 8 line (Ontario 7522) is Vantage, which is known to contain Cf - 4 from Lycopersicon peruvianum (Kerr, 1980; Bailey & Kerr, 1964) . Lindhout et al . (1989) also characterized the Cf - 11 resistance gene by differential response upon inoculation with different races of C . fulvum . Remarkably, all races virulent on Cf - 11 from Ontario 7716 also were virulent on lines containing the Cf - 4 resistance gene . Cf - 11 is the result of a dominant mutation in the Cf - 4

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