Virus resistant tomatoes

Israel’s TomaTech has a range of tomato varieties with intermediate resistance to the brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) that is ruining 50% of global tomato crops (see here for another Israeli-developed variety). TomaTech has now filed a patent for the DNA markers that identify high resistance traits.

http://www.fruitnet.com/eurofruit/article/185176/tomatech-cracks-code-for-tobrfv-resistance

https://www.tomatech.com/team-2-5-2/

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