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Old September 10, 2015   #97
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Jaune Flamme has a reputation as a high beta-carotene variety and I see nothing in the data that it does not have the B gene. It is definitely not tangerine, if it was it would have a fraction of the beta-carotene and lycopene values indicated in the chart.

Also, see pics of Perfect Flame tomato which is a cross of JF and Peron: http://www.hgtvgardens.com/photo/per...f-fb76ac080000

Not sure why there are different results with one cross giving orange/red F1 and the other more a straight orange, but one possibility is that the Beta genes involved in each of the lines were introgressed from different wild relatives and therefore represent different alleles and/or bring along different modifier genes, thus affecting both the total caretenoid content and the ratios of beta-carotene to lycopene.
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