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Boutique Tomatoes · February 18, 2013

Thanks for the pointer to the article, I'll see if I can find and read it today.

I have not found much on the pedigree of Iron Lady, which is what I was considering as a source. I'm hoping there is some binding between those dozen genes, otherwise it's worse than a one in a million chance of developing a stable parent line.

My thought was that I could extract seeds from the first fruits of a couple of Iron Lady plants started early and do the testing with those F2's this year. Hopefully some variation of this idea is feasible, even if it's using detached leaves. While I could plant out a few hundred, seeing as how seeing actual infection is a hit or miss occurance I don't know that it would be an effective way to screen here.

February 18, 2013	#6
Boutique Tomatoes Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Northeast Wisconsin, Zone 5a Posts: 1,109	Thanks for the pointer to the article, I'll see if I can find and read it today. I have not found much on the pedigree of Iron Lady, which is what I was considering as a source. I'm hoping there is some binding between those dozen genes, otherwise it's worse than a one in a million chance of developing a stable parent line. My thought was that I could extract seeds from the first fruits of a couple of Iron Lady plants started early and do the testing with those F2's this year. Hopefully some variation of this idea is feasible, even if it's using detached leaves. While I could plant out a few hundred, seeing as how seeing actual infection is a hit or miss occurance I don't know that it would be an effective way to screen here.