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Taking action against ToBRFV.
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High-quality seeds mean high performance for youStriving for excellence and high quality is central to our people and processes. Quality is in our DNA. It’s in our core. This means when you plant our seeds, you can start the season with the confidence of high quality and high performance.
Confidence on every level – committed to delivering durable resistance
At Vegetables by Bayer, we continuously innovate for long-term solutions to challenges like ToBRFV. Because we know our growers need reliable varieties they can trust, we invest in thorough research and testing to provide quality seeds with high marketable yield potential.
We are focused on rapidly obtaining durable ToBRFV resistance in combination with excellent agronomic performance and consumer and retail benefits. One way to achieve durable resistance is by stacking multiple resistance genes. This is a stepwise process where we expect resistance levels to increase over time.
Wageningen testing facility
Our quarantine greenhouse in Wageningen, the Netherlands, is dedicated to testing ToBRFV resistance in tomatoes. It will help strengthen and accelerate our search for resistant varieties.
“This infrastructure is part of a worldwide testing footprint aimed at characterizing resistance genetics under a wide range of growing conditions and infection regimes.”
Working on durable ToBRFV resistance
Jan Barten, Strategic Project Lead, explains the work being done at our Wageningen facility to develop varieties with durable ToBRFV resistance.
Testing single ToBRFV infection and ToBRFV in combination with PepMV
Pepino Mosaic Virus (PepMV) is present in many tomato-growing countries. This creates the possibility that tomatoes can be infected by PepMV, ToBRFV, or a combination of both.
There are potentially many combinations of infection, be it ToBRFV – PepMV or vice versa or even tri-infection with TYLCV. Through our observations and technical discussion with our customers, Vegetables by Bayer is evaluating new tomato varieties in two ways that best reflect the real life and common practices of growers: with only a single ToBRFV infection and with a controlled infection of PepMV* followed by ToBRFV infection, here described as co-infection.
*PepMV is introduced via vaccination
In these trials, ToBRFV inoculation is carried out at an early stage, some weeks after planting. Our experience is that actively growing young plants are very susceptible to ToBRFV, with the virus multiplying very fast. There does not appear to be large difference between the symptoms caused by a single ToBRFV infection or by ToBRFV infection after vaccination with PepMV. Brown spots and rings are most likely from ToBRFV.
No silver bullet to mitigate ToBRFV co-infection
Co-infection with aggressive viruses is a big challenge, as uncontrolled infections will reduce yields. Growers will need to adopt and maintain a high level of hygiene practices to help maximize the number of productive plants and minimize ToBRFV infections at the end of the crop cycle.
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