VARIETAL PEDIGREES TGC REPORT 52, 2002
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Ohio OX150 Hybrid Processing Tomato
David M. Francis, Stan Z. Berry, Troy Aldrich, Ken Scaife, and Winston Bash
Horticulture and Crop Science
The Ohio State University, OARDC
1680 Madison Ave.
Wooster, OH 44691
Introduction: Ohio OX150 is an early to early-mid season processing tomato (Lycopersicon
esculentum Mill.) hybrid adapted to high population transplant culture, machine harvest, and
bulk handling under humid growing environments. It is suited for the production of peeled,
whole-canned, and diced tomato products.
Origin: Ohio OX150 is the F1 hybrid resulting from the cross of the inbred line O88119
described by Berry et al. (1995) and Ohio 9242. ‘Ohio 9242’ is an F8 selection derived by
single seed decent from the F6 selection A1816. The selection A1816 is derived from a cross
between ‘Ohio 832’ (Berry et al., 1986) variant ‘O9149’ (Montagno et al., 1988) and ‘Ohio
8556’ (Berry et. al., 1993).
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O88119
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Ohio 832 (variant O9149)
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Ohio 8556
Fig. 1. Pedigree of ‘Ohio OX150’
Description: Ohio OX150 vines are medium in size, semi-prostrate, and determinate (sp).
Foliage cover is excellent for ensuring good fruit quality and at maturity the vines cover the row
area uniformly. The average maturity from transplant to harvest of ‘Ohio OX150’ is 97.1 days
over four years of field testing, comparable to the early season standard, ‘Ohio 7983’ (Berry et
al., 1992).
The average machine harvest yield of Ohio OX150 was 32.8 T/A over four years of
testing, outperforming the major early season varieties open pollinated variety Ohio 7983 and
comparing favorably to OX 52 (Francis et al., 2000) (though differences were not always
significant). Yields of ‘Ohio OX150’ were comparable to the main-season open pollinated
variety Ohio 8245 and the main-season hybrid Heinz 9423. Yields were somewhat less than
the major main-season variety Peto 696 (Table 1).
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