Tomato variety picus

Abstract

The invention provides seed and plants of the tomato variety designated Picus. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato variety Picus and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety Picus with itself or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing, and also relates to parts of a plant of tomato variety Picus including the fruit and gametes of such plants. The invention also relates to tomato variety FDS 14-2081, and to seeds and plants produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety FDS 14-2081 with itself or another tomato plant. The present invention is also directed to tomato variety FDS 14-2090, and to seeds and plants produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety FDS 14-2090 with itself or another tomato plant.

1 . A tomato plant comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of tomato variety FDS 14-2081 or tomato variety FDS 14-2090, a sample of seed of said varieties having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number ______, and ATCC Accession Number ______, respectively. 
     
     
         2 . A seed comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of tomato variety FDS 14-2081 or tomato variety FDS 14-2090, a sample of seed of said varieties having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number ______, and ATCC Accession Number ______, respectively. 
     
     
         3 . The plant of  claim 1 , which is inbred. 
     
     
         4 . The plant of  claim 1 , which is hybrid. 
     
     
         5 . The plant of  claim 4 , wherein the hybrid plant is variety Picus, a sample of seed of said variety having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number ______. 
     
     
         6 . The plant of  claim 3 , wherein the inbred plant is variety FDS 14-2081 or variety FDS 14-2090. 
     
     
         7 . A plant part of the plant of  claim 1 . 
     
     
         8 . The plant part of  claim 7 , further defined as a leaf, a ovule, pollen, a fruit, or a cell. 
     
     
         9 . A tomato plant, or a part thereof, having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the tomato plant of  claim 5 . 
     
     
         10 . A tomato plant, or a part thereof, having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the tomato plant of  claim 6 . 
     
     
         11 . A tissue culture of regenerable cells of the plant of  claim 1 . 
     
     
         12 . The tissue culture according to  claim 12 , comprising cells or protoplasts from a plant part selected from the group consisting of embryos, meristems, cotyledons, pollen, leaves, anthers, roots, root tips, pistil, flower, seed and stalks. 
     
     
         13 . A tomato plant regenerated from the tissue culture of  claim 12 . 
     
     
         14 . A method of vegetatively propagating the plant of  claim 1  comprising the steps of:
 (a) collecting tissue capable of being propagated from a plant according to  claim 1 ; 
 (b) cultivating said tissue to obtain proliferated shoots; and 
 (c) rooting said proliferated shoots to obtain rooted plantlets. 
 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14 , further comprising growing plants from said rooted plantlets. 
     
     
         16 . A method of introducing a desired trait into a tomato variety comprising:
 (a) crossing a plant of variety FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090, a sample of seed of said varieties having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number ______, and ATCC Accession Number ______, respectively, with a second tomato plant that comprises a desired trait to produce F1 progeny;   (b) selecting an F1 progeny that comprises the desired trait;   (c) crossing the selected F1 progeny with a plant of variety FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090 to produce backcross progeny;   (d) selecting backcross progeny comprising the desired trait and the physiological and morphological characteristic of tomato variety FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090; and   (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny that comprise the desired trait.   
     
     
         17 . A tomato plant produced by the method of  claim 16 . 
     
     
         18 . A method of producing a plant comprising an added desired trait, the method comprising introducing a transgene conferring the desired trait into a plant of tomato variety Picus, FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090. 
     
     
         19 . A method of determining the genotype of the plant of  claim 1  comprising obtaining a sample of nucleic acids from said plant and detecting in said nucleic acids a plurality of polymorphisms. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 19 , further comprising the step of storing the results of detecting the plurality of polymorphisms on a computer readable medium. 
     
     
         21 . A computer readable medium produced by the method of  claim 20 . 
     
     
         22 . A method for producing a seed of a variety derived from variety Picus, FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090 comprising the steps of:
 (a) crossing a tomato plant of variety Picus, FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090 with a second tomato plant; and   (b) allowing seed of a variety Picus, FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090-derived tomato plant to form.   
     
     
         23 . The method of  claim 22 , further comprising the steps of:
 (c) crossing a plant grown from said variety Picus, FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090-derived tomato seed with itself or a second tomato plant to yield additional variety Picus, FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090-derived tomato seed;   (d) growing said additional variety Picus, FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090-derived tomato seed of step (c) to yield additional variety Picus, FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090-derived tomato plants; and   (e) repeating the crossing and growing steps of (c) and (d) to generate further variety Picus, FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090-derived tomato plants.   
     
     
         24 . The method of  claim 22 , wherein the second tomato plant is of an inbred tomato variety. 
     
     
         25 . The seed of  claim 2 , defined as produced by crossing variety FDS 14-2081 with variety FDS 14-2090, a sample of seed of said varieties having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number ______, and ATCC Accession Number ______, respectively. 
     
     
         26 . The seed of  claim 25 , wherein variety FDS 14-2081 is a male parent. 
     
     
         27 . The hybrid seed of  claim 25 , wherein variety FDS 14-2081 a female parent. 
     
     
         28 . A plant produced by growing the seed of  claim 25 . 
     
     
         29 . A plant part of the plant of  claim 28 . 
     
     
         30 . The plant part of  claim 29 , further defined as a leaf, a flower, an ovule, pollen, or a cell. 
     
     
         31 . A tissue culture of cells of the plant of  claim 28 . 
     
     
         32 . The tissue culture of  claim 31 , wherein cells of the tissue culture are from a tissue selected from the group consisting of embryos, meristems, cotyledons, pollen, leaves, anthers, roots, root tips, pistil, flower, seed and stalks. 
     
     
         33 . A tomato plant regenerated from the tissue culture of  claim 32 , wherein the regenerated plant expresses all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of hybrid tomato variety Picus. 
     
     
         34 . The seed of  claim 25 , wherein one or both of the plant of variety FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090 and the second plant further comprises a transgene. 
     
     
         35 . The seed of  claim 25 , wherein one or both of the plant of variety FDS 14-2081 or FDS 14-2090 and the second plant comprises a single locus conversion. 
     
     
         36 . A method of producing a tomato fruit comprising:
 (a) obtaining a plant according to  claim 1 , wherein the plant has been cultivated to maturity; and   (b) collecting tomato from the plant.   
     
     
         37 . The method of  claim 36 , wherein the plant according to  claim 1  is a plant of tomato variety Picus.