Mapping of the gene in tomato conferring resistance to root-knot nematodes at high soil temperature

Root-knot nematodes (RKNs, Meloidogyne spp.) can cause severe yield losses in tomatoes. The Mi-1.2 gene in tomato confers resistance to the Meloidogyne species M. incognita, M. arenaria and M. javanica, which are prevalent in tomato growing areas. However, this resistance breaks down at high soil temperatures (>28°C). Therefore, it is imperative that new resistance sources are identified and incorporated into commercial breeding programmes. We identified a tomato line, MT12, that does not have Mi-1.2 but provides resistance to M. incognita at 32°C soil temperature. An F2 mapping population was generated by crossing the resistant line with a susceptible line, MT17; the segregation ratio showed that the resistance is conferred by a single dominant gene, designated RRKN1 (Resistance to Root-Knot Nematode 1). The RRKN1 gene was mapped using 111 Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR (KASP) markers and characterized. Linkage analysis showed that RRKN1 is located on chromosome 6 and flanking markers placed the locus within a 270 kb interval. These newly developed markers can help pyramiding R-genes and generating new tomato varieties resistant to RKNs at high soil temperatures.


Introduction
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an economically important vegetable crop grown in regions with warm and temperate climates.Root-knot nematodes (RKNs) are one of the most important pests of tomato plants and are obligate endoparasites that can cause galls on the roots of the plant they feed on and restrict the uptake of water and nutrients from the vascular bundles.Therefore, they cause a decrease in yield and quality (Williamson and Hussey, 1996).
Management methods for RKNs include crop rotation with resistant varieties or less-susceptible crops (Talavera et al., 2009;Abd-Elgawad, 2022), cultural and tillage practices (Marquez and Hajihassani, 2023), microbial biocontrol agents (Hashem and Abo-Elyousr, 2011) and nematicides (Rawal, 2020;Phani et al., 2021).Using resistant varieties is one of the most common and successful control methods today due to their lack of residue, ease of application and environmental friendliness (Devran and Sögüt, 2010).Plant disease resistance genes have been classified into eight major families based on their amino acid motif organization and their membrane spanning domains (Gururani et al., 2012).The majority of resistance genes encode proteins belonging to the toll/interleukin1 receptor (TIR)nucleotide binding siteleucine-rich repeat (TIR-NBS-LRR) or intracellular coiled coil (CC) -nucleotide binding siteleucine-rich repeat (CC-NBS-LRR, Mchale et al., 2006), which are now called NLRs (Barragan and Weigel, 2021).The Mi-1.2 gene encodes a CC-NLR protein (Milligan et al., 1998) and provides effective protection against Meloidogyne incognita, M. javanica and M. arenaria, which are commonly present in tomato growing areas (Roberts and Thomason, 1986).However, the Mi-1.2 gene loses its effect at high soil temperatures and the resistance breaks down (Dropkin, 1969;Özalp and Devran, 2018).Especially in hot climates, the increase in soil temperatures in summer plantings creates problems for growers using tomato varieties carrying the Mi-1.2 gene.This climate-derived condition severely limits the use of resistant tomato cultivars carrying the Mi-1.2 gene.Therefore, it is imperative to identify new resistance gene(s) for the sustainability of resistance against RKN.Gene(s) conferring resistance at high soil temperature may allow earlier planting and prolong the growing period in hot climates regions.Therefore, researchers have identified new resistance genes from Mi-2 to Mi-9.Among these genes, Mi-2, Mi-3, Mi-4, Mi-5, Mi-6 and Mi-9 were found to be effective at high soil temperatures (Cap et al., 1993;Yaghoobi et al., 1995;Veremis and Roberts, 1996a;Veremis and Roberts, 1996b;Veremis et al., 1999;Ammiraju et al., 2003).Of these genes, Mi-2 and Mi-4 have not yet been mapped; Mi-3 and Mi-5 have been mapped to chromosome 12 (Yaghoobi et al., 1995;Ammiraju et al., 2003;Jablonska et al., 2007), while Mi-1, Mi-6 and Mi-9 have been mapped to chromosome 6 (Veremis and Roberts, 1996b;Kaloshian et al., 1998;Milligan et al., 1998;Ammiraju et al., 2003;Jablonska et al., 2007).Gene Mi-3 additionally provides resistance against Mi-1.2-virulentRKN populations (Yaghoobi et al., 1995), while Mi-6 and Mi-9 are susceptible to Mi-1.2-virulent RKN populations (Veremis and Roberts, 1996b;Veremis and Roberts, 2000).Apart from these genes, Mi-HT provides durable resistance at high temperatures and shows homology to Mi-1.2 and Mi-9 (Wu et al., 2009).However, it is not known whether Mi-HT is a different gene from Mi-9 (Wang et al., 2013).The Mi-9 gene was recently characterized and cloned by Jiang et al. (2023) using a chromosome-scale genome assembly of Solanum arcanum LA2157.Seven candidate genes were determined using comparative genomic studies and markers shown to be linked to the Mi-9 gene.Transcriptomics demonstrated that five of the seven candidate genes were expressed in root tissues.Cloning of the Mi-9 gene was confirmed by silencing candidate genes and investigating the resistance performance of plants obtained.In addition, Mi-9 was transformed into susceptible tomato lines and was demonstrated to confirm resistance to RKN at high soil temperature (Jiang et al., 2023).Previously, we investigated the response of the Mi-1.2 gene at high soil temperatures and observed that the resistance provided by the Mi-1.2 gene broke down in plants exposed to 32°C soil temperature for 48 hours or longer (Özalp and Devran, 2018).We then proceeded to investigate the response of the identified tomato line along with the other tomato lines at high soil temperature.In this study, we determined that the tomato line MT12 confers resistance to the RKN, and the durability provided was heat stable.Thus, we focused our further studies on this line.We used next generation sequencing (NGS) technology to map this new gene in MT12 designated RRKN1 (Resistance to Root-Knot Nematode 1), and identified the genomic interval on the chromosome 6 for the RRKN1 using Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR (KASP) markers.

Plant materials
The parental genotypes MT12 and MT17 were obtained from tomato genetic resources of Multi Tohum (Antalya, Turkey).The tomato line MT12 was used as a resistance source in this study.There is not much information about the genetic background of this genotype.MT17 is a susceptible parent obtained from female (Solanum lycopersicum X S. hirsutum) and male (Solanum lycopersicum X Solanum pimpinellifolium).Tomato cultivars Seval F 1 carrying Mi-1.2 gene and susceptible Tueza F 1 (Multi Tohum, Antalya, Turkey) were used as controls in the experiments.The presence or absence of Mi-1.2 gene in all tomato plants was confirmed using Mi23 primer set (Seah et al., 2007) (Supplementary Figure 1).

Nematode isolates
Two avirulent isolates of M. incognita, S6 and K7, were used in the experiment to investigate the response of the MT12 at a high temperature (Devran and Sogut, 2009).All isolates used have been continued as pure nematode cultures since 2008 in Devran laboratory.The responses of MT12 to Mi-1.2 natural virulent populations V12 and V21 of M. incognita were also investigated.Only the M. incognita avirulent S6 isolate was used in the mapping and inheritance studies of RRKN1.
Avirulent isolates were multiplied on susceptible tomato cultivar Tueza F 1 , while Mi-1.2 natural virulent isolates were multiplied on resistant tomato cultivar Seval F 1 containing the Mi-1.2 gene to maintain their virulence in a growth chamber at 25°C ± 0.5 with a 16:8 hours photoperiod (light: dark) and 65 ± 5% relative humidity.Sixty days after inoculation the plants were removed, and the plant roots were washed with water.Egg masses were collected from the root using a small needle and placed in centrifuge tubes (Özalp and Devran, 2018).They were then stored at 4°C until inoculation.

Testing plant lines with nematode
Tomato seeds were sown in vials including vermiculite, perlite, and peat (v:v:v: 1:1:1) and maintained in a seedling facility.Seedlings with four true leaves were transplanted into 250 ml plastic pots including sterilized sandy soil and were kept in the growth chamber at 25°C for a week to ensure root development.For the tests to be carried out at high temperature, the pots were transferred to a growth chamber at 32°C.Soil temperature was monitored with the probes placed in pots and nematodes were inoculated when the soil temperature reached 32°C.Seedlings were exposed to soil temperatures at 32°C for 7 days.
For nematode inoculation, egg masses were placed in a sieve and fresh second stage juveniles (J2s) from hatched eggs were collected and counted under a light microscope and diluted to 1000 J2s/ml.A total of 1000 J2s were inoculated into two holes (0.5 ml of water per hole) near the stem of each plant.The procedure was performed according to former studies (Öcal et al., 2018;Nas et al., 2023).After seven days, the plants were transferred to a growth chamber at 25°C ± 0.5 with a 16:8 hours photoperiod (light: dark) and 65 ± 5% relative humidity until the end of the experiment.

Investigating MT12 response to avirulent and Mi-1.2 natural virulent isolates at high soil temperature
To observe the response of the MT12 tomato line to nematode isolates at a high temperature, an experiment was conducted under 25°C and 32°C soil temperature conditions.For this purpose, avirulent M. incognita isolates K7 and S6 were used for the inoculation of plants.Besides resistant source MT12, susceptible tomato cultivar Tueza F 1 and resistant tomato cultivar Seval F 1 were used as control plants in the experiment.
To observe the response of the MT12 tomato cultivar to Mi-1.2 natural virulent M. incognita isolates, an experiment was conducted under 25°C soil temperature conditions.For this purpose, Mi-1.2 natural virulent M. incognita isolates V12 and V21 were used for the inoculation of plants.
Both experiments were performed as described above for testing plant lines.The experiments were carried out as five replicates and two repeats according to the completely randomized design.

Inheritance and mapping population
A cross between the resistant and susceptible parent lines MT12 and MT17, respectively, was generated and the F 1 line was obtained.An F 2 mapping population was generated by selfing the F 1 line.A total of 130 F 2 seeds were obtained from a single F 1 tomato plant and were used in the phenotyping and genotyping experiments.

Data evaluation and statistics
Plants were uprooted sixty days post inoculation (dpi) and the roots were washed under the tap water.The roots were then stained with Ploxine B, and the galls and egg masses were counted and recorded (Öcal et al., 2018).Egg masses and galls in the roots of the plants were counted under a light microscope.
Plants in mapping population were classified as resistant if the individual root system had less than 25 egg masses, or susceptible if the individual root system had 25 or more egg masses (Veremis et al., 1999;Ammiraju et al., 2003;Wang et al., 2013).
Data were analyzed by analysis of variance (ANOVA).Differences among means were examined using the Tukey multiple comparison test.Chi-square tests for specific proportions for goodness of fit were carried out using the PROC FREQ function.All statistical analysis was performed using with the SAS statistical program (v. 9.0 for Windows; SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA).

DNA isolation
Genomic DNA was extracted from young leaves collected from parental lines and F 2 plants using the Wizard Magnetic Kit (Promega) following the manufacturer's instructions.DNA was then run on an agarose gel and checked for degradation or their high molecular weight.The quality control (QC) of the DNA was determined by Novogene UK (Cambridge, United Kingdom) before proceeding to the sequencing.

Genome sequencing
The sequencing has been carried out by Novogene UK (Cambridge, United Kingdom), generating 150 bp paired-end read data for each parent line (resistant and susceptible) with NovaSeq 6000.

Strategies for mapping the RRKN1 gene
At the beginning of the study, there was no information on the location of the RRKN1 gene.Therefore, we used three different strategies to determine the RRKN1 locus.

Strategy 1: focusing on chromosome 6
Previous studies reported that some genes providing resistance to RKNs in tomatoes are located on chromosome 6 (Milligan et al., 1998;Jablonska et al., 2007;Du et al., 2020).Therefore, initially, we focused on this chromosome.We selected 55 SNPs from the SolCap Tomato Genotyping Panel (https://www.biosearchtech.com)on chromosome 6, nine of which were polymorphic between parental lines (Supplementary Table 1).

Strategy 2: global mapping
Analysis of the genomic sequences of our parental lines identified 34 new SNPs, distributed over 10 chromosomes (Supplementary Table 2).Single-nucleotide differences among parents were visually inspected using IGV.In determining the number of primers to represent each chromosome, we considered the length of each chromosome in the reference genome of the tomato.

Strategy 3: information-led mapping
Since the data obtained from the first and second strategies provided information that the gene is most likely to be located on chromosome 6, we focused on this chromosome.Thus, genome sequences belonging to the parents were compared with the reference genome in the IGV and 17 new further SNPs were taken towards marker development and fine mapping (Supplementary Table 2).
For all three strategies, initially identified SNPs were used to detect polymorphisms between parental lines and then polymorphic markers were used to screen mapping population.

Development of KASP markers for RRKN1 gene
Genomic sequences flanking and including SNPs were determined using Geneious Prime 2019 (Biomatters) and sent to LGC Biosearch Technologies (https://www.biosearchtech.com)to develop KASP primers.The KASP reactions were performed according to previous studies (Devran and Kahveci, 2019;Kahveci et al., 2021) and carried out using the Hydrocycler (LGC Biosearch Technologies, UK) with a 61-55°C touchdown protocol.The fluorescent readings were performed for 2 min at 25°C using a FluOstar Omega Microplate Reader (BMG LABTECH Ortenberg, Germany).

Accession numbers
The raw sequence reads of parent lines have been deposited in the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under accession numbers SRR25056976 and SRR25056975 and are accessible via BioProject accession PRJNA988534.

Results
Tomato line MT12 does not carry Mi-1.2 but provides resistance to Mi-1.2-avirulent isolates at high soil temperature In this experiment, we investigated changes in the resistance status of tomato plants inoculated with M. incognita K7 and S6 isolates when exposed to soil temperatures of 25°C and 32°C.MT12 (mi-1.2/mi1.2) and Seval (Mi-1.2/mi-1.2) F 1 plants were resistant to both isolates at 25°C soil temperature, whilst the Tueza (mi1.2/mi-1.2) F 1 cultivar was susceptible, exhibiting a large number of galls and egg masses, as expected (see Supplementary Figure 1 for genotypes of plant lines used).No significant differences were observed in the gall and egg mass numbers of both isolates on MT12 and Seval F 1 cultivar when exposed to 25°C soil temperature (p ≤ 0.05) (Table 1).Among the plants exposed to 32°C soil temperature, the highest egg mass and gall number was counted in Tueza F 1 .Resistance was broken at 32°C in Seval F 1 carrying the Mi-1.2 gene; however, the gall and egg mass numbers were about half of those observed in the susceptible Tueza F1.Conversely, MT12 showed a resistant response against K7 and S6 isolates despite being exposed to 32°C soil temperature for one week (Table 1).

Tomato line MT12 is susceptible to naturally Mi-1.2-virulent isolates
We also tested MT12 with nematode isolates that are naturally Mi-1.2-virulent at 25˚C soil temperature.The Mi-1.2 naturally  virulent isolates V12 and V21 multiplied very well and produced egg masses on the roots of MT12, indicating that MT12 did not provide resistance to Mi-1.2 naturally virulent isolates.Also, Seval F 1 lines bearing the Mi-1.2 gene were overcome by the Mi-1.2virulentisolates as expected.The isolates produced egg masses on roots of susceptible Tueza F 1 and caused galls.No statistically significant differences were observed in the numbers of galls between the two virulent isolates in the three tested plant lines (p ≤ 0.05) (Table 2).

Resistance to M. incognita is controlled by a single dominant gene
We tested the parents and F 1 plants derived from the cross between the susceptible and resistant tomato lines for resistance to M. incognita at 32°C soil temperature.The F 1 individuals were resistant to M. incognita.The F 1 plant was selfed to obtain F 2 population.Of 130 F 2 individuals subjected to M. incognita, screening showed 91 resistant and 39 susceptible plants, giving a segregation ratio of 3:1 resistant:susceptible (c2 = 1,73, p=0.18).This indicates that the resistance is controlled by a single dominant gene designated Resistant to Root-Knot Nematode 1 (RRKN1) at 32°C soil temperature.

Mapping RRKN1 gene
Initially 55 SNPs on chromosome 6 of the tomato genome from SolCap were selected and converted to KASP markers.We first screened parents with these markers for polymorphism and 9 of them were found to be polymorphic (Supplementary Table 1).Then, F 2 populations were screened with these polymorphic markers.Phenotype and genotype data indicated that RRKN1 may be located on chromosome 6.
We also took a global genome mapping approach.We developed KASP markers for all chromosomes, except for 8 and 9, for which no SNPs were identified.Markers (Supplementary Tables 2, 3) were first used to screen parents to confirm polymorphism and the F 2 mapping population was screened.Results showed that only those KASP markers developed from chromosome 6 were linked to the pathological data for RRKN1.These findings supported our initial results where we used 9 KASP markers developed from SolCap.Therefore, we focused on chromosome 6 to confirm the location of RRKN1 gene and developed further new 17 KASP markers from chromosome 6 (Supplementary Table 2) to fine map the gene.Two flanking markers, KASP-6-2649872 and KASP-6-2919895, were identified placing the gene(s) in a 270 kb interval on chromosome 6 (Table 3; Figure 1).
The genes Mi-1E, Mi-1F and Mi-1G within the interval fall within a clade of nematode-specific R genes, as sequence similarity searches using BLASTP against the NCBI's Non-Redundant Proteins database revealed highest degree of similarity with Rgenes previously implicated in resistance to nematodes in tomato and pepper.As tomato accession MT12 does not carry a functional allele of Mi-1.2, the most likely candidates for RRKN1 are Mi-1E, Mi-F and Mi-1G.Amino acid sequence alignments of these three putative R-proteins along with Mi-1.2 indicated these proteins are highly similar to each other but not identical (Figure 2).

RRKN1 gene region is heterozygous in parents
As the mapping population was generated by crossing two F 1 parents, the genomic vicinity of the resistance gene is expected to be heterozygous.Therefore, we developed five new KASP markers were developed within the interval (Supplementary Table 2) and the markers were then used these to screen parents and the mapping population.The results confirmed the region to be heterozygous (Supplementary Table 4).

Discussion
The Mi-1.2 gene is widely used for resistance to root-knot nematodes; however, it has some significant drawbacks, including breakdown of resistance at high soil temperatures.Therefore, new resistance sources must be identified and incorporated into tomato breeding programmes.In this study, we demonstrate that resistance source MT12 does not carry a functional alle of Mi-1.2 but provides durable resistance due to RRKN1 at high soil temperatures.Additionally, MT12 does not confer resistance to naturally identified Mi-1.2-virulent isolates, indicating that RRKN1 shares a similar resistance-spectrum to Mi-1.2 but does not break down at high temperature.Also, as expected, the Seval F 1 plant carrying the Mi-1.2 gene was observed to lose resistance at high soil temperatures.In previous studies, different resistance genes such as Mi-2, Mi-3, Mi-4, Mi-5, Mi-6 and Mi-9 were determined against RKNs at high soil temperatures (Cap et al., 1993;Yaghoobi et al., 1995;Veremis and Roberts, 1996a;Veremis and Roberts, 1996b;Veremis et al., 1999;Ammiraju et al., 2003).Ammiraju et al. (2003) found the LA2157 (Mi-9) accession to be resistant to avirulent populations of M. arenaria, M. incognita and M. javanica at 25°C and 32°C.Also, resistance was provided by a single dominant gene located in the vicinity of the Mi-1.2 gene on the short arm of chromone 6.In another study, Jablonska et al. (2007) suggested that Mi-9, which is a heat-stable resistance gene, was located on chromosome 6 and may be a homologue of Mi-1.Recently, Wang et al. ( 2013) reported that Mi-HT, conferring resistance to M. incognita at high temperatures (32°C) in line ZN17, was a single dominant gene and located on the short arm of chromosome 6.Also, molecular data indicated that Mi-HT might be an orthologue of Mi-1 and Mi-9 or a new gene.Gene Mi-9 is located on chromosome 6 between positions 2305101 and 3327863 and Mi-HT is between 2305101 bp and 2327783 bp, based on investigating positions of published markers linked to Mi-9 and Mi-HT genes in version SL3.1 genome assembly of tomato.In the present study, we showed that the RRKN1 gene is on chromosome 6 and in a 270-kb interval between positions 2.649.872 and 2.919.895.Recently, Jiang et al. (2023) determined that the Mi-9 gene is located between nucleotides 3.113.154and 3.116.774on chromosome 6 of LA2157.They also showed that the similarity of Mi-1.2 and Mi-9 proteins was 97.22%.Previously, we mapped Pvr4 in pepper (Devran et al., 2015), Frl in tomato (Devran et al., 2018) and CsCvy-1 in cucumber (Kahveci et al., 2021) using genomics coupled with the bulked segregant analysis method.In this study, to determine the location of RRKN1, we developed molecular markers to cover all chromosomes and used them to screen F 2 populations.Narrowing the genomic interval depends on the number of recombinants in a given mapping population.In the mapping exercise of Frl gene in tomato, we used 542 F 2 lines and mapped the gene to a 900-kb interval on chromosome 9 (Devran et al., 2018).In this study, we used only 130 F 2 lines and determined a 270-kb interval for RRKN1.This improved genomic resolution may have been due to the fact that F 1 lines in a commercial programme are produced from pure breeding lines, which would have undergone many recombination events due to continuous crossing to accumulate the desired traits.This in turn, may have helped identification of the desired recombinant lines for mapping.As we had a few more recombinants from either side of the flanking markers, we attempted to narrow the interval further and developed markers tightly linked to the gene.Results of implementing newly developed KASP markers proved difficult due to the heterozygous nature of the RRKN1 interval.In some cases, the number of the recombination in a region could be influenced by chromosome rearrangement and recombination suppression (Tang et al., 2008;Verlaan et al., 2011).
The interval contains three possible candidates for RRKN1: Mi-E, Mi-F and Mi-G.In the SolGen genome annotation, these genes correspond to loci Solyc06g008770.2.1, Solyc06g008790.3.1 and Solyc06g008800.2.1 respectively.The amino acid alignment of these putative disease resistance proteins show that they are very similar to each other as well as to the well-known Mi-1.2.Recent studies show  that the NLR proteins work as a pair.For example, Arabidopsis RPP2 family (RPP2A, RPP2B, RPP2C and RPP2D) have been shown to be required for the recognition of ATR2 effector for the downy mildew pathogen (Kim et al., 2023).Similarly, Arabidopsis TIR-NLR RRS1 and RPS4 (Guo et al., 2020), and the rice CC-NLR pairs RGA4/RGA5 and Pik-1/Pik-2 (Zdrzałek et al., 2020) have been reported to work together.As we did not proceed to clone the functional gene for RRKN1, further studies would be required to reveal which one(s) of these three candidate genes are providing the resistance against the RKNs.Possible approaches that can be utilized may include CRISPR/ Cas9 system (Erdogȃn et al., 2023), virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) method (Valentine et al., 2004), cloning each of them and transforming to a susceptible line and assaying the lines with a relevant nematode population.Once the gene is identified, a new MAS-friendly marker could be developed withing the gene to use in the breeding programme.In summary, root-knot nematodes are an important problem for tomato growing areas.The use of resistant cultivars is one of the most attractive disease management methods.The Mi-1.2 gene has been used for a long time in tomatoes.However, Mi-1.2 gene was overcome by Mi-1.2-virulentRKN populations (Roberts, 1990;Castagnone-Sereno et al., 1994;Kaloshian et al., 1996;Devran and Sögüt, 2010) and loses its effect at high soil temperatures (Dropkin, 1969;Özalp and Devran, 2018).Molecular markerassisted selection of a resistant gene is important for breeding programmes.In conclusion, identifying a new gene such as RRKN1 and developing molecular markers tightly linked to gene, discovered in the present study, can help generate new tomato varieties, fine-mapping and cloning of the gene.Growers can use RRKN1-carrying lines instead of tomato varieties bearing the Mi-1.2 resistance that breaks down at high soil temperature.In addition, pyramiding of RRKN1 and Mi-1.2 genes in superior tomato lines would prolong controlling of the root-knot nematodes.

FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1 Map interval of RRKN1 on tomato chromosome 6.Coordinates of molecular markers used to map the RRKN1 locus on the reference tomato genome SL3 are given on the right of the bar.Numbers on the left of the bar indicate the number of recombinants in 130 F 2 individuals.

TABLE 1
Number of egg masses and galls of Meloidogyne incognita isolates on tomato cultivars exposed to 32°C and 25°C.

TABLE 2
Number of egg masses and galls of Mi-1.2-natural virulent Meloidogyne incognita isolates on tomato cultivars.
Means within a column followed by the same letter are not significantly different (p ≤ 0.05) according to Tukey's multiple comparison test.MT12: Resistant parent.Seval F1: Tomato cultivar carrying Mi-1.2 gene.Tueza F1: Susceptible tomato cultivar.

TABLE 3
Segregation of locus among F 2 lines that were critical to the mapping of RRKN1. 2 lines were generated from the cross between the resistant and the susceptible cultivars.SS homozygous for susceptible parent allele; RR homozygous for resistant parent allele; RS heterozygous.Important recombinants are given in bold. F