Escobar-Bravo, Rocio; Alba, Juan M.; Pons Puig, Clara; Granell Richart, Antonio; Kant, Merijn R.; Moriones, Enrique; Fernandez-Munoz, Rafael(Frontiers Media, 2016-11-22)
Whiteflies damage tomatoes mostly via the viruses they transmit. Cultivated tomatoes lack many of the resistances of their wild relatives. In order to increase protection to its major pest, the whitefly Bemisia tabaci and ...
We have studied a genomic library of introgression lines from the Solanum pimpinellifolium accession TO-937 into the genetic background of the "Moneymaker" cultivar in order to evaluate the accession's breeding potential. ...
Barrantes, Walter; Fernández Del Carmen, María Asunción; Lopez-Casado, Gloria; González-Sánchez, María Ángeles; Fernandez-Munoz, Rafael; Granell Richart, Antonio; Monforte Gilabert, Antonio José(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2014-12)
The Solanum pimpinellifolium L. accession TO-937 is resistant to pests due to the presence of type IV glandular trichomes and also has the potential to increase fruit quality traits in tomato cultivars. This accession was ...
Cocaliadis-Caisson, María Florencia; Fernandez-Munoz, Rafael; Pons Puig, Clara; Orzáez Calatayud, Diego Vicente; Granell Richart, Antonio(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-08)
[EN] Fruits are generally regarded as photosynthate sinks as they rely on energy provided by sugars transported from leaves to carry out the highly demanding processes of development and ripening; eventually these imported ...
[EN] Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a major crop plant and a model system for fruit development. Solanum is one of the largest angiosperm genera(1) and includes annual and perennial plants from diverse habitats. Here we ...