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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2013
Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt En Zaadhandel B.v., De Lier, NL;
Dörthe Bettina Dräger, Den Haag, NL;
Zeger Otto Van Herwijnen, Rotterdam, NL;
Rudolf Verhoef, Naaldwijk, NL;
Arie Vogelaar, Dordrecht, NL;
RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V., De Lier, NL;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a tomato plant (L.) in which the glandular heads of type VI trichomes are absent, and that has a modified composition of flavonoids and volatiles. Furthermore, the typical tomato smell is absent or nearly absent. The plant comprises a mutant allele, which is obtainable from a tomato plant, representative seed of which was deposited under deposit accession number NCIMB 41845. The said mutant allele is located on chromosome 9 between positions 1750800 bp and 4517648 bp, preferably between positions 1939546 bp and 2970346 bp, most preferably at about position 2454946 bp on a physical map of thegenome.