What is an FT tomato?

Started by Petra Suckling, 2020-01-24, 03:45:19 AM

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Petra Suckling

2020-01-24, 03:45:19 AM
We have come across the term hybrid FT tomato,(not F1) and do not know what it means. 

Can anybody on here please tell us?  TIA
Central England, cool, maritime (ish), cloudy, often dry, but recent weather unpredictable

William Schlegel

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2020-01-24, 06:13:27 AM
I just tried to ask google. Could be a gene for early flowering also found in Arabidopsis. Could be short for foot tall. Could be a typo of F1.
Western Montana garden, glacial lake Missoula sediment lacustrian parent material and shallow 7" silty clay loam mollisoil topsoil sometimes with added sand in places. Zone 6A with 100 to 130 frost free days

reed

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2020-01-24, 06:31:19 AM
I searched it too, shows up too many places to be a typo I think but no clue what really is.

Klaus Brugger

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2020-01-25, 08:58:49 AM
Sometimes, disease resistances are stated as letters next to the cultivar name.
I've seen this e.g. in the Seeds 'n Such catalogue. There, FT would mean resistance to Fusarium wilt race 1 and to tomato mosaic virus.

Steph S

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2020-01-25, 09:31:42 AM Last Edit: 2020-01-25, 09:33:54 AM by Steph S
An important gene for hybrid tomatoes is SFT (Single Flower Truss).    Could it be a variant allele of that?

http://image.sciencenet.cn/olddata/kexue.com.cn/upload/blog/file/2011/1/201116233448523782.pdf

Nope, it is a gene called "Flower locus T"  according to google "tomato gene FT"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B:PLAN.0000004333.96451.11
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