'Mountain Rouge': A Pink-fruited, Heirloom-type Hybrid Tomato and Its Parent Line NC 161L

摘要

'Mountain Rouge' is an improved heirloom-type F-1 hybrid tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) with large, smooth, pink fruit, excellent flavor, and an indeterminate growth habit. It is resistant to late blight [Phytophthora infestans (Montagne, Bary)] and root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp). fruit color. An F-3 generation selection, 161L-1W (2007), with desirable horticultural traits and a high level of late blight resistance was made in the field. in 2007. A subsequent F4 generation selection was made in the greenhouse to develop the line NC0652(x)-1W-1W-1, which was bulked and subsequently released as NC 161L.