In this research we evaluated tomato lines for resistance to late blight. An amount of 72 genotypes (70 tomato lines F8 plus the accesses of BGH-UFV '184'and '1497') was evaluated. The lines were derived from interspecific crossing between Solanum lycopersicum ('Santa Clara') and Solanum habrochaites f. glabratum (access BGH-UFV '6902'). The experiments were conducted in field in the randomized blocks design with two and three replications in the first and second experiment, respectively. The plants were inoculated with a sporangia blend of Phytophthora infestans from the six different tomato producing cities of Zona da Mata, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, in a concentration of 10³ sporangia mL-1. We evaluated the percentage of disease severity, presented as an area under the disease progress curve (AUDPC). In both experiments 10 tomato lines plus the access BGH-UFV '1497' were selected. The lines identified as 50 I, 90 J, 127 F, 145 B and 164 G presented medium values of AUDPC inferior to the resistant witness. It was possible the introgression of late blight resistance genes present in S. habrochaites f. glabratum in S. lycopersicum.
Solanum spp.; Phytophthora infestans; selection; tomato; pre-breeding
