Likelihood of getting a green from F2s?

gflynn · June 1, 2010

Tomato Folks,

Two years back I crossed White Current with Cherokee Green. Last year I got a purple/burgendy cherry from the cross, named it MORX and entered it at out local tomato tasting competition. It was great tasting and won first place for flavor.

This year I am growing out 18 of the F2s and I was wondering if anyone could guess the likelihood of getting a green-when-ripe out of the cross?

What do you suppose the distribution of colors might be? I would assume that I would get 1/4 green if it is as simple as requiring 2 traits for green-when-ripe similar to eye-color.

Greg

June 1, 2010	#1
gflynn MAGTAG™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Gaithersburg, MD Posts: 437	Likelihood of getting a green from F2s? Tomato Folks, Two years back I crossed White Current with Cherokee Green. Last year I got a purple/burgendy cherry from the cross, named it MORX and entered it at out local tomato tasting competition. It was great tasting and won first place for flavor. This year I am growing out 18 of the F2s and I was wondering if anyone could guess the likelihood of getting a green-when-ripe out of the cross? What do you suppose the distribution of colors might be? I would assume that I would get 1/4 green if it is as simple as requiring 2 traits for green-when-ripe similar to eye-color. Greg