Is anyone familiar with the detailed lineage of tomato S. pimpinellifolium line West Virginia 700? First mention of this line is in Gallegly 1960. Any more detailes are higly appreciated.
Do you know everything from GRIN database?
Seeds (one fruit?) were collected by Gallegly at the end of 1946 in West Virginia gardens as Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme. He has got many hybrids Lycopersicon esculentum X L. pimpinellifolium from the same collection site, so ac. 700 may have some introgression in the genome from Lycopersicon esculentum. It was tested for resistance among many other accessions, including described in literature before at 1953.
West Virginia had good conditions for late blight, and many British-style gardens with different plants grown together. Good chance for hybridization and selection of disease-tolerant genotypes.
^MANY THANKS :) I was looking hard for that info but couldn't get it deep enough.
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