Report of the Tomato Genetics Cooperative, Vol. 8


Cover 0

Foreword 1

Minutes of the Stanford meeting and arrangements 3 for meetings in 1958.

Tomato breeders group 4

Southern tomato exchange program 5

Linkage summary 7

New mutants. Burdick, A. B.

Greenstripe (gs) on chromosome 1 (III). Butler, L.

Linkage tests with the aurea mutant (au). Butler, L.

Linkage tests with the curly mottled mutant (cm). Butler, L.

Linkage tests with the stamenless mutant (sl\1). Butler, L.

The effect of gamma radiation on subsequent germination of pollen. Chiscon, J. A.

Pollen germination. Chiscon, J. A.

A highly asynaptic mutant. (Part of a Ph.D. thesis) Clayberg, C. D.

Some observations on biosynthesis. Francis, F. J.

Resistance to cracking. Frazier, W. A.

Some linkage studies with the Mi gene to root knot. Gilbert, J. C.

Preliminary studies of five stamenless mutants. Hafen, L. and E. C. Stevenson.

Stamenless mutants as female parents in the production of F1 hybrid seed. Hafen, L. and E. C. Stevenson.

Studies of the sideshootless mutant, ls. Hafen, L. and E. C. Stevenson.

The chlorophylldeficient mutant sulfurea. (an example of somatic gene conversion) (submitted by H. Stubbe) Hagemann, R.

Results with L. cheesmanii. Hardin, M.

Blunt (bn), a "stamenless" malesterile mutant associated with a change in leaf shape. Henderson, W. R. and W. N. Brown

Linkage relations of gf. Kerr, E. A.

Linkage relations of 1\-2. Kerr, E. A.

Mutations for chlorophyll retention in ripe fruit. Kerr, E. A.

Segregation data for ls. Kerr, E. A.

Excised root cultures of wd and d^x and their normal alleles. Lee, A. L.

A blue-green mutant produced from radioactive phosphorus-treated seed. Lesley, J. W., Margaret M. Lesley.

Effects of growthpromoting substances on heterozygous lanceolate. (Submitted by J. A. Jenkins). Mathan, D.

Homozigous lancelote. (submitted by J. A. Jenkins) Mayhan, D.

Linkages of ten male-sterile genes. Pratt, D.

The "roguing" method of linkage detection. Pratt, D.

Distribution of cm in tropical tomatoes. Rick, C. M.

Dwarf sterile, ds, a new mutant in group V. Rick, C. M.

Linkage relations of Me. Rick, C. M.

Linkage tests with Cu. Rick, C. M.

Locus of tf on chromosome 7. Rick, C. M.

NCP in cultivated tomatoes from the Chile-Peru frontier. Rick, C. M.

New mutations at old loci. Rick, C. M.

Recent trisomic tests. Rick, C. M.

Segregation and linkage of a new anthocyanin deficency, ah. Rick, C. M.

Segregation and linkage of solanifolia, sf, a new seedling marker. Rick, C. M.

A theorethical consideration in hybrid tomato seed production. Sawant, A. C.

Ramified infloroscence. Scost, R. K.

Tobacco mosaic resistance. Scost, R. K.

Identitatsprufung mutierer Allele. Stubbe, H.

A new chlorophyll mutant. Thompson, A. E. and R. W. Hepler.

Chromosome regions with multiple effects. Williams, W.

Recombination of laternal suppressor, ls, with marker genes. Williams, W.

Inheritance of fruit cracking. (from a Ph.D. Thesis)

Effects of gamma rays and thermal neutrons. Young, P. A.

Directory of members 41

List of available or desired stocks 49

Bibliography of papers on tomato genetics and 55 breeding published in 1956

Financial statement 60