Tomato
Breeders' Round Table, March 12-16, 2001. Antigua,
Guatemala.
Organizing Committee:
Cathy Thome, Joel Calderon, Phyllis Himmel, Bob Heisey, and Andrea Mendizabal
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Molecular
characterization of tomato-infecting Geminiviruses in Central America.
Update on Dominican Republic story. Douglas Maxwell.
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The
search for resistance to tomato leaf curl disease in Guatemala. Luis Mejia.
University of Guatemala.
Breeding
for resistance to whitefly-transmitted Geminiviruses. Francisco Morales.
CIAT, Cali, Colombia.
Whitefly
transmitted Geminivirus distribution and management strategies in Mexico. Rafael
Bustamante.
Geminivirus
resistance derived from Lycopersicum chilense accessions LA1932, LA1938, and
LA2779. Jay Scott. University of
Florida, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Bradenton, FL.
Development
of a universal and reliable scale for evaluation of TYLCV-resistance level in
tomato plants. Moshe Lapidot, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel.
Distribution
and genetic diversity of tomato-infecting geminiviruses in
Tomato
markets in Central America.
Javier Martinez. Seminis,
Guatemala.
Biotechnology
and its regulations in Guatemala. Dr.
Carlos Orozco, .
Development
of the tomato Geminivirus problem and work done by ICTA in Guatemala.
Porfirio
Masaya/Luis Calderon. ICTA,
Guatemala.
Attempts
to elucidate the components of tomato flavor for improved breeding efficiency.
Jay Scott. University of
Florida, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Bradenton, FL.
Breeding
for lycopene content in L. esculentum germ plasm: the role of interacting
loci. David Francis and Eileen
Kabelka, The Ohio State University, OARDC, Wooster, OH.
The
PCR-based marker REX-1, linked to the gene Mi, can be used as a marker to TYLCV
tolerance. Judith Milo. Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
In
search of "Breeder Friendly" polymorphic PCR Markers Tightly linked to
Frl.
Ryan Walker.
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
Breeding for resistance to
bacterial spot: prospects for
marker assisted selection. David Francis, The Ohio State University, OARDC,
Wooster, OH.
Germ
plasm committee report. John
Stommel, USDA-ARS, Vegetable Lab. Beltsville,
MD.
Panel
discussion: Ethics in Plant
Breeding. Bob Heisey, Seminis; Jeff
Zischke, Sakata; Rick Osminkowski, Heinz.