Acylsugars in tomato leaflets confer resistance to the South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta Meyr

Acylsugars present in the accession 'LA716' of Lycopersicon pennellii play an important role in the resistance to Tuta absoluta. This paper investigates the possible association between the resistance to T. absoluta and the acylsugar contents in F2 and F2BC1 tomato plants derived from the...

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Main Authors: Juliano Tadeu Vilela de Resende, Wilson Roberto Maluf, Marcos Ventura Faria, Alessandra Zawadzki Pfann, Ildon Rodrigues do Nascimento
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2006-02-01
Series:Scientia Agricola
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162006000100004&tlng=en