{"id":407443,"date":"2025-09-08T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407443\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:14:09","slug":"30-year-old-tomato-line-shows-genetic-resistance-to-devastating-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407443\/","title":{"rendered":"30-year-old tomato line shows genetic resistance to devastating virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers found that a tomato line developed 30 years ago is showing good resistance to the emerging tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV), a virus that has the potential to cause billions of dollars in damage to the tomato industry in the United States and worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ToBRFV infects tomato, pepper, and similar crops by distorting leaves and discoloring fruit, resulting in yield loss. The virus is seed-borne and overcomes the resistance genes in current commercial cultivars. It can easily spread when healthy plants come in contact with contaminated equipment, hands, clothing, or infected plants or plant parts.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the latest news and policy debates on sustainable agriculture, biomedicine, and other \u2018disruptive\u2019 innovations. Subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo minimize the impact of ToBRFV, it is crucial to identify new sources of genetic resistance that can be used to breed virus-resistant tomato cultivars,\u201d said Kai Ling, an ARS research plant pathologist at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/southeast-area\/charleston-sc\/vegetable-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Vegetable Laboratory<\/a>\u00a0in Charleston, SC.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>According to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/pbi.70237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent study<\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0Plant Biotechnology Journal, Ling and his research team found that a tomato line (tomatoNN) expressing the tobacco\u00a0N\u00a0gene that was developed in the 1990s shows resistance to ToBRFV. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1096726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This is an excerpt. Read the original post here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers found that a tomato line developed 30 years ago is showing good resistance to the emerging tomato&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3846],"tags":[267,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-407443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-genetics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115167917787649798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}