Keygene N.v.

Monsanto Invest B.v.

Monsanto Invest N.v.

Remco Van Berloo

Willem Hendrik Lindhout

Adriaan Willem Van Heusden

Hendrikus Johannes Finkers

Arjen Ten Have

Johannes Arnoldus Laurentius Van Kan

Niek Bouman

Timotheus Gerardus Doeswijk

Jacob Bernhard Buntjer

José Lúcio Lima Guerra

Johannes Arnoldus Van Kan

The present invention provides a method for improving at least one phenotypic trait of interest in subsequent generation(s) of a population of individuals, preferably crop plants or cattle. Particularly, the method identifies the combination of at least three individuals that gives, upon subsequent intercrossing, the highest estimated probability of improving the at least one phenotypic trait of interest in the subsequent generation(s). Also provided is a computer-readable medium comprising instructions for performing the method.

Directed strategies for improving phenotypic traits

The present invention relates to a method for detecting a quantitative trait locus (QTL) associated with resistance toin tomato, including the steps of crossing a-resistant donor tomato plant with a non-resistant, or-susceptible, recipient tomato plant, contacting one or more offspring plants with an infective amount of, quantitatively determining the disease incidence and/or the rate of lesion growth in the one or more offspring plants, establishing a genetic linkage map that links the observed disease incidence and/or rate of lesion growth to the presence of chromosomal markers of the donor tomato plant in the one or more offspring plants, and assigning to a QTL the contiguous markers on the map that are linked to a reduced disease incidence and/or a reduced lesion growth rate.

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Wageningen, Netherlands

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