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Inheritance of foliar zingiberene contents and their relationship to trichome densities and whitefly resistance in tomatoes

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The sesquiterpene zingiberene, present in leaf glandular trichomes, is reportedly responsible for the high level of arthropod resistance found in Lycopersicon hirsutum var. hirsutum. This paper reports on the inheritance of zingiberene contents and of the various types of glandular trichomes in the interspecific cross L. esculentum × Lycopersicon hirsutum var. hirsutum. Plants of L. esculentum ‘TOM-556’ (= P1), L. hirsutum var. hirsutum ‘PI-127826’(= P2), F1 (P1 × P2) and F2 (P1 ×P2) were evaluated for zingiberene contents and densitities of and glandular (types I, IV, VI and VII) trichomes. Broad sense heritabilities were high for all traits studied (0.678, 0.831, 0.996, 0.799 and 0.717 respectively for zingiberene and trichome types I, IV, VI, VII). There were significant positive genetic correlations between zingiberene contents and densities of trichomes types IV, VI and VII. Inheritance of zingiberenecontents can be explained mostly by the action of a single major locus, inwhich the allele from L. hirsutum that conditions high content is incompletely recessive over the allele from L. esculentum. Action of an incompleteley recessive allele in one major locus appears to be evident for densities of trichome types IV, VI and VII, but there is also evidence of the action of other epistatic loci for types IV and VI. F2 genotypes selected for high zingiberene levels showed higher levels of resistance to the silverleaf whitefly Bemisia argentifolii than L. esculentum ‘TOM-556’, levels that were comparable those found in L. hirsutum var. hirsutum ‘PI-127826’ and other whitefly resistant accessions.

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    Joelson A. Freitas

  2. Departamento de Agricultura, Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Cx. Postal 37, CEP 37200-000, Lavras – MG –, Brazil

    Wilson R. Maluf

  3. Departamento de Química, UFLA, Brazil

    Maria das Graças Cardoso

  4. CNPq/Rhae Scholarship recipient/HortiAgro Sementes Ltda, Ijaci – MG –, Brazil

    Luiz A.A. Gomes

  5. Departamento de Ciências Exatas, UFLA, Brazil

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Freitas, J.A., Maluf, W.R., das Graças Cardoso, M. et al. Inheritance of foliar zingiberene contents and their relationship to trichome densities and whitefly resistance in tomatoes. Euphytica 127, 275–287 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020239512598

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