I am posting this as a STICKY since I have moderator duties
and the topic is important to me and maybe to new, future, and entrenched readers on this forum.
Nearly 50 years of tomato breeding work with the supposed gs gene (Green Stripe) has brought forth countless numbers of beautifully striped tomato varieties. The starter gene came presented itself to from a partially expressed tomato clone found in a increase plot of the Ames, Iowa tomato collection....before it moved to the Geneva, NY location. Was it a mutation? Was it related to the much older variety Tigerella? I gave up using Tigerella thirty years ago since it was, frankly, inferior.
I noticed very early that my selection of the so-called gs gene was undergoing some radical phenotypic expression. The early varieties out of breeding work with the striped gene....Green Zebra, Elberta Girl, Banana Legs (Banana Fingers) Schimmeig Stoo, Schimmeig Creg, Green Nails, Brown Derby(striped version) Green Bell Pepper, and a few others started quite a "diaspora" especially with my issuance of my TATER MATER SEED catalogs starting with the 1983 premiere.
I kept breeding more and more striped tomatoes since 1983 and there is no way I can count all of them. Quite humbly, I can't explain the genetics of the gs gene. I am more of an artist than a geneticist! I save seed from what I like, and cannot profess to know everything that shows up in the progenies of my breeding experiments. I get stripes, streaks, dots, wavy zig-zag lines, dapples, shoulder stripes, odd colors of stripes, an so on.
Many folks have come forth with all kinds of stripes tomatoes that were accidental crosses, intentional crosses or later descendants of some of my earliess OP lines. The Striped Roman, Black Zebra, Copia, and Blush.....are but a few.
I will add to this list as I get time. I picked out a select group that shows a huge diversity. Enjoy!
Blauer Punkt
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Roman Shades
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http://i.imgur.com/7ysDXX9.jpg?2[/IMG]
Primary Colors
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http://i.imgur.com/BCOS0Ic.jpg?1[/IMG]
Roman Tapestry
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http://i.imgur.com/COXgKFt.jpg[/IMG]
Roman Gold
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http://i.imgur.com/I9V0D3Y.jpg[/IMG]
Sky Reacher
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http://i.imgur.com/AoVsoSX.jpg?1[/IMG]
Abracazebra
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http://i.imgur.com/uS2C9mJ.jpg?1[/IMG]
Go Pack
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http://i.imgur.com/mn3a7EO.jpg[/IMG]
Arche Zebra
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http://i.imgur.com/hS8sihN.jpg[/IMG]
Pink Scrofa
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http://i.imgur.com/l0OY36L.jpg[/IMG]
One of many Yamali Blue strains
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http://i.imgur.com/I096gHL.jpg?1[/IMG]
Ma Journée
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http://i.imgur.com/9tNHnER.jpg[/IMG]
Hipa Gold Dwarf
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http://i.imgur.com/wcBf17C.jpg?1[/IMG]
Glacial Zebra
Shadow Boxing #41
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http://i.imgur.com/TQZL3XT.jpg[/IMG]
Chocolate Blues
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http://i.imgur.com/bUJY2Vi.jpg[/IMG]
Striped Students
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http://i.imgur.com/DrM3y8d.jpg[/IMG]
Casady’s Folly
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http://i.imgur.com/PxLjE1V.png?2[/IMG]
Guarbecque
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http://i.imgur.com/cYK99Vn.png?1[/IMG]
51 32209
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http://i.imgur.com/Zn03b98.png?1[/IMG]
Embarrassing tomatoes
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http://i.imgur.com/NqAwCkL.png?1[/IMG]
Hyde and Seek
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http://i.imgur.com/udiwVwC.png?1[/IMG]
Schimmeig Stoo breeding line
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http://i.imgur.com/hjIkmqd.png?1[/IMG]
Casady’s Folly X Breeding line
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http://i.imgur.com/zS7K98h.png?1[/IMG]
Agrafen
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http://i.imgur.com/GeFADLE.png?1[/IMG]
Combo Stripe
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http://i.imgur.com/RuiupNG.png?1[/IMG]
Nana
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http://i.imgur.com/lp7jTZV.png?1[/IMG]
Vintage Gates
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http://i.imgur.com/rCEPQgG.png?1[/IMG]
Zebra Ezel
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http://i.imgur.com/vhCYMkX.png?1[/IMG]
My original Green Zebra strain
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http://i.imgur.com/UZjwrDh.png[/IMG]
La Roupie
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http://i.imgur.com/UeaJVWZ.png?1[/IMG]
Three way F-1 hybrid
