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The wild taxa of tomato possess a large reservoir of economic attributes, particularly resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses and quality attributes (Table 7.1). Wide crosses have been attempted to develop resistance, high quality and high-yielding cultivars, to generate new variability and for some cytogenetical investigations. The importance of wild taxa is apparent with the development of several resistant cultivars. In several biotic and abiotic stress areas, the survival of tomato cultivars is largely due to the presence of resistance gene(s) in the cultivars derived from the wild species. Some notable examples are resistance to fusarium wilt, tomato (tobacco) mosaic virus, root knot nematodes and leaf mold.
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Kalloo, G. (1991). Interspecific and Intergeneric Hybridization in Tomato. In: Kalloo, G. (eds) Genetic Improvement of Tomato. Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84275-7_7
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