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Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), a heterogeneous complex of whitefly-vectored geminiviruses, is a serious production constraint of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) in Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas. In this study we report on mapping of a DNA fragment introgressed into cultivated tomato presumably from the wild species L. hirsutum Humb. and Bonpl. and found to be associated with TYLCV resistance. To locate introgressions of wild tomato alleles in TYLCV-resistant tomato line H24, its DNA was digested with six restriction enzymes and probed with 90 RFLP markers evenly spaced throughout the genome. This polymorphism survey revealed the presence of one wild tomato introgression each on chromosomes 8 and 11. Plants of a F2 cross between H24 and a susceptible tomato line were probed with randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RFLP) markers linked to the targeted regions and F3 families were developed by self-pollination of F2 plants that carried none, one, or both introgressions in either homozygous or heterozygous states. Plants of F3 families, parents, and control tomato line Ty52 (homozygous for the Ty-1 allele for TYLCV tolerance) were exposed to viruliferous whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci Gennadius) in greenhouses at the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center, Taiwan, and the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India. Results indicated that F3 families homozygous for the introgression on chromosome 11 were resistant to TYLCV at both locations. Additional probing showed that the chromosome 11 introgression spanned markers TG36 to TG393, covering a distance of at least 14.6 centimorgans. This is the first report of TYLCV resistance in tomato mapped to chromosome 11.

Bruchid, Callosobruchus spp. (Coleoptera: Bruchidae), is a serious pest during storage of seeds of mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) and other Vigna species. A source of resistance to this pest has been identified in Vigna sublobata (Roxb.) Bairig. accession TC1966. Two hundred recombinant inbred lines at the F(12) generation have been developed for molecular mapping of bruchid resistance (Br) gene in TC1966. Through bulked segregant analysis (BSA), ten randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers associated with the bruchid resistance gene were successfully identified. A total of four closely linked RAPDs were cloned and transformed into sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) and cleaved amplified polymorphism (CAP) markers. Seven CAPs developed from the identified RAPD markers showed tighter linkage with the Br gene than the original RAPD. Through transformation of RAPDs into CAPs, codominant markers for bruchid resistance were successfully obtained. Homozygous genotypes of these PCR-based markers were estimated to contribute 85% of the variance for seed damage when the insect assay was performed under favorable growth conditions for bruchid

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