The bacterial wilt incidence for the tomato inbreds is in Table 1 . Both Fla . 8109 and Fla . 8109B had percentages of healthy plants that were not significantly different than that o Hawaii 7997 but significantly greater than that of susceptible Florida MH - 1 and bacterial w tolerant Neptune . Fla . 81 f ilt 09 had significantly greater resistance than the bacterial wilt tolerant aravel variety from Guadeloupe . Fla . 7997 is an experimental variety meant to be an provement over Neptune and it had significantly greater resistance in this experiment . The Table 1) and 8109B do not have heat - tolerance so the test for fruit ize was conducted in the spring . This experiment did demonstrate the large fruit size of thes similar to Sanibel, a large fruited commercial grown in Florida (Ta la . 8109 and Fla . 8109B were larger fruited than Horizon ptune . Yield of the lines was less than the other three varieties but this was not ecause they s ome breeding work .   y the data suppor ntion that Fla . 8109 and Fla . 8109B have a good level l wilt resistance a uit . They need to be tested further in Florida and to determine thei in other regions of the world where bacterial wilt is a repulsion linka en a bacterial wilt resistance gene and a gene uit size has bee then the new coupling linkage should make Fla . 8109 ially attractive resis urce to work with for those interested in developing rieties . Selec bacterial wilt resistance with this material should carry a larger fruit . J . C . , and V . L . Quinon . 1964 . Heritability of bacterial wilt resistance in rticultural Science . 84:455 - 462 . nic onma, S . and Y . Sakata . 1993 . Inheritance of resistance to bacterial wilt in tomato . In:   Bacterial Wilt, Proceedings of an international conference held at Kaohsiung, Taiwan . ACIAR Proceedings No . 45, 381 p Jones, J . B , Som C . , Che emi and S . M . Olson . 1995 . ‘Neptune’, a rant, bacteria wilt - t tomato . ort 30:641 - 642 . C im other inbreds are small fruited . They all had good resistance in this experiment ( in previous testing . Fla . 8109 and Fla . s e two sister lines as they were statistically tomato ble 2) . F and Ne unexpected b till need s tivel Collec t the conte of bacteria ere nd large fr l elsewh r potentia problem . If a g fr ge betwe enhancin an espec n broken tance so large fruited va tendency for ting for L Acosta, J . C . , Gilb iterature Cited ert, tomato . American Society for Ho Danesh, D . Aarons, S . , McGill, G . E . , and N . Young . 1994 . Genetic dissection of oligoge resistance to bacterial wilt in tomato . Mol . Plant - Microbe Interactions 7:464 - 471 . M p . Scott, J . W . , . odi, G . ll , D . O . , heat - tole l - olerant H Science

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