The hunt for tomatoes with disease resistance.

The article offers information on the work of tomato plant breeder Sam Hutton of the University of Florida's Gulf Coast Research and Education Center in developing tomato varieties with resistance to the yellow leaf curl virus. His latest variety is called Ty-3 which has the ability to resist lots of strains of the virus. According to Hutton, wild tomatoes offer disease resistance and he is bringing such a trait in from other, more standard varieties.