Tospovirus-Resistant Tomato Varieties for Southern Florida

Abstract

Authors describe performance of Tospovirus-resistant tomato varieties under commercial production settings in Dade County, FL. Virus resistance has become important for this area since the emergence of two new tomato-infecting tospoviruses. Knowledge of availability and performance of resistant varieties will help growers who are looking for alternative varieties.

Keywords

• tomato chlorotic spot virus
• groundnut ringspot virus
• host resistance
• Dade County
• South Florida Vegetable Production