ISHS Acta Horticulturae 200: II International Symposium on Processing Tomatoes, XXII IHC
PROGRESS IN TOMATO BIOTECHNOLOGY |
| Author: | Jon F. Fobes |
| DOI: | 10.17660/ActaHortic.1987.200.7 |
| Abstract:
The tomato has developed into an excellent model system for the plant molecular biologist. Plants can be easily regenerated from single cells or protoplasts. Selection of single cells have yielded lines genetically resistant to pathogens, herbicides, and other abiotic environs. Tomato protoplasts can be fused with protoplasts of other tomato lines, or species, as well as with protoplasts of other plant genera. Tomato DNA has been isolated, cloned, and engineered. Successful transformation of tomato has been effected, using a variety of methods to introduce foreign DNA. The critical road block to improvement of tomato varieties through genetic engineering is the discovery and manipulation of useful single genes that can be isolated by molecular geneticists. | |
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