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Old January 1, 2016   #21
shule1
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Originally Posted by Darren Abbey View Post
… There is less-common dominant mutation that results in orange fruit. It is supposed to be present in: "Caro-rich", "Podorok Fei", "Jaune Flammée", "Caro-Red", "Big Orange", and "USDA 97L97". It is probably in a few others, but if your orange variety isn't in this list, you're probably dealing with the tangerine mutation. …
There are two kinds of Big Orange tomatoes, apparently. One is supposed to be a bicolor. I imagine that isn't the one with the Beta Carotene gene. Is the one at Tomatofest the one with the Beta Carotene gene? Or, where is it? How do you know it has the Beta Carotene gene?

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