Evaluation of Tomato Hybrids for Resistance against Tomato Mosaic Virus (ToMV)

Abstract

Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV) drastically affects the tomato production worldwide. To deal with this problem, breeding of ToMV-resistant hybrids/varieties is the ultimate need and most successful approach. In wild tomato species, three dominant ToMV-resistant genes (Tm-1, Tm-2 and Tm-22 ) were identified and the World Vegetable Center developed few fresh market tomato lines resistant to ToMV by the introgression of these genes. Recently at Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology, Faisalabad, Pakistan a breeding programme was initiated to develop high yielding and ToMV tolerant hybrids using these lines. Current study was performed to screen elite F1 hybrids carrying Tm gene along with their parents against ToMV using mechanical inoculation, confirmation of the virus using DAS-ELISA and marker assisted selection of hybrids. Out of 28 hybrids and 17 parent accessions/genotypes, eight hybrids and five accessions were found to be highly resistant and the virus was not detected in DAS-ELISA. Five hybrids were resistant, nine hybrids and four genotypes were tolerant, while the remaining six hybrids and eight genotypes were susceptible. For the confirmation of Tm-22 gene, the tomato hybrids and their parents were subjected to molecular analysis using cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) primers. The result of CAPS markers for the confirmation of Tm-22 gene was found consistent with phenotypic data of the inoculated tomato genotypes/ hybrids. Higher phenolic content, total soluble proteins, better CAT and SOD activities were positively correlated with resistance. Screening results based on phenotype, biochemical and molecular marker data indicate that hybrids carrying Tm-22 gene are good sources of resistance against ToMV.

Evaluación de la Patogenicidad de Tres Aislados del virus de la fruta rugosa marrón del tomate en plantas de tomate (Solanum lycopersicum L.) de Coahuila, México

“…Con el propósito de cultivar tomates libres del ToBRFV y prevenir su propagación en los sistemas de agricultura protegida, resulta imperativo identificar y adoptar una combinación de prácticas fitosanitarias en el proceso de producción de tomate (Panno et al, 2020). Una estrategia innovadora para alcanzar este objetivo es seleccionar un híbrido de tomate F1 que sea tolerante a los tobamovirus, junto con semillas libres del ToBRFV; además, resulta beneficioso que la planta pueda producir niveles elevados de proteínas solubles totales, compuestos fenólicos y una significativa actividad enzimática de catalasas y peróxido dismutasa (Nadeem et al, 2022;Panno et al, 2021). Los resultados obtenidos en nuestro análisis destacan la importancia de la fuente de inóculo del ToBRFV y su papel en el proceso de selección de la variedad de tomate a cultivar, incluso en circunstancias en las que ya se ha detectado el virus en la misma localidad.…”