Travis, if you would like a bit more info, look up patent 5,866,764 in the U.S. patent office files. Summarizing, they found high resistance to late blight in LA2533 and introgressed it into a cultivated tomato background. Unfortunately, they didn't identify the gene and they didn't make crosses to known ph2 (West Virginia 63) and ph3 (NC1 Celebr) containing lines to see if the resistance is identical or unique. When I called Doug Heath, I specifically asked if it was ph3 and he replied that he did not know for sure at that time. Since then, I've been told that he stated to at least one person that it was probably ph3, but this is NOT confirmed.
I am growing Tye Dye this year with the specific purpose of crossing it to Lucky Cross. I'd love to see Lucky Cross flavor in a late blight tolerant tomato.
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