Twenty Years of Tomato Breeding at EPSO-UMH: Transfer Resistance from Wild Types to Local Landraces—From the First Molecular Markers to Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS)

In 1998, the plant breeding team at the School of Engineering of Orihuela (EPSO), part of the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) in Elche, commenced a tomato breeding program. Marker-assisted selection and backcrossing were used to simultaneously introduce three genes (Tm-2a, Ty-1, and Sw-5) that con...

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Main Authors: Pedro Carbonell, Aranzazu Alonso, Adrián Grau, Juan Francisco Salinas, Santiago García-Martínez, Juan José Ruiz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-02-01
Series:Diversity
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/10/1/12