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In field experiments with fall and winter tomatoes, the incidence of fruit hollowness was found to range from 0 to more than 80%, depending both on the cultivar and the environment. The most resistant cultivars were Bonner Beste and Potentate; the most susceptible were Exhibiton, Moneymaker, E.S. 1, Berco, Cromco and Ailsa Craig. The rate of hollowness of F1 and F2 generations of crosses between resistant and susceptible parents suggests that resistance behaves as a partially dominant character governed by a small number of genes. Thus, commercial F1 hybrids resistant to the disorder are easy to produce. The heritability of the resistance character was found to be rather high.
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Contribution from The Volcani Institute of Agricultural Research, Bet Dagan, Israel. 1969 Series, No. 1558-E.
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Palevitch, D., Kedar, N. Resistance of tomato cultivars and progenies to fruit hollowness. Euphytica 19, 253–260 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01902953
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