2011 Abstracts and Presentations
Genetics and breeding of LB resistanceand high fruit lycopene content.
Majid R. Foolad, Heather L. Merk, Matthew P. Kinkade, Hamid Ashrafi and  Matthew T. Sullenberger, Dept. of Horticulture and The Inter-college Graduate Degree Programs in Genetics and Plant Biology, The Pennsylvania State  University, University Park, PA 16802. 
mrf5@psu.edu
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Quality is color, and color is lycopene, or not.
David Francis, The Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Dept. of Horticulture and Crop Sciences.
francis.77@osu.edu
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Present status of begomovirus resistance breeding efforts at University of Florida.  Sam F. Hutton and Jay W. Scott, IFAS, University of Florida, Gulf Coast Research & Education Center, 14625 CR 672, Wimauma, Florida, 33598.
sfhutton@ufl.edu and jwsc@ufl.edu
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 Developing TILLING for tomato. 
Junda Jiang, Roger Chetelat, Allen Van  Deynze and Luca Comai, Dept. of Plant Sciences and Genome Center, University of California, Davis. 
trchetelat@ucdavis.edu
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 Phenotypic and molecular variation in 44 vintage tomato varieties.
 J.A. Labate¹,* D.R. Panthee², M. McGrath³, D.M. Francis⁴, A. Breksa⁵, and  L.D. Robertson¹, ¹USDA-ARS, Plant Genetic Resources Unit, Geneva, NY 14456, ²Dept. of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center, Mills River, NC 28759, ³Dept. of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center, Riverhead,
NY 11901, ⁴Dept. of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, OH 44691, ⁵USDA-ARS, Processed Foods Research Unit, Albany, CA  94710.
joanne.labate@ars.usda.gov
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Breeding tomato for pigments. Dilip R. Panthee and Penelope Perkins-Veazie, Dept. of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University.
 dilip_panthee@ncsu.edu
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Identification of trichomes, loci and chemical compounds derived from Solanum habrochaietes accession LA1777 that are associated with resistance to the sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci in tomato, S.  lycopersicum. 
Mohamed T. Rakha^1,2, Jay W. Scott², Samuel F. Hutton²and
 Hugh Smith², ¹ Horticulture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kafrelsheikh, Kafr El-Sheikh, 33516 Egypt, ² Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, IFAS, University of Florida, 14625 CR 672, Wimauma, FL 33598.
mrakha@ufl.edu
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Fresh market tomato breeding: visions or folly. 
J. W. Scott, IFAS, University of Florida, Gulf Coast Research & Education Center, 14625 CR 672, Wimauma, Florida, 33598.  jwsc@ufl.edu
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Fine mapping of the Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus resistance gene Ty-2 on Chromosome 11 of tomato. 
Xiaohui Yang^1,2, Jay Scott¹, Sam Hutton¹, and Yongchen Du^{2  1}Gulf Coast Research & Education Center, University of
 Florida, Institute of Food and Agriculture; ²Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, the Chinese Academy of Agriculture. xiaohuiyang@ufl.edu
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Crop design with genomics and natural diversity.
Edward Buckler, USDA- ARS, Cornell Univ.
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East Coast Report - James Frantz 
james.frantz@monsanto.com for  more details.
The Fresh Market CA & Baja - Felix Serquen
felix.serquen@syngenta.com for more details.
Area Report - Southeast and South Asia - Henk Jan Pascha and Karina van Leeuwen
karina.vanleeuwen@eastwestseed.com for more details.
South American Update - Rogelio Hernanez-Armenta
egonzalez@bhnseed.com for more details.
omato Update Sinaloa Mexico - Juan Manuel Quintana
jmquintana@sakata.com.mx for more details.