The century of tomatoes usable to gardener base their distinction on several factor , include disease resistance . Common diseases that infect tomato let in verticillium and fusarium wilt disease that spread through the soil causing yellow-bellied leaves , wilt and destruction . Other diseases admit tobacco mosaic virus , alternaria stem canker and grey-haired leaf spot , all of which spread by various measures and make mar , lesions , discolouration and often death . Some variety of tomato plant prove more successful in disease electric resistance than others .

Neptune

" Neptune , " a determinate variety bred specifically tolerate hot , humid conditions and to stand diseases such as bacterial wilt matures within 67 day . fruit librate around 1/4 pound and grow in clustering of two to four along 1- to 3 - column inch tenacious vines . " Neptune " is resistant to verticillium wilt and fusarium wilting . " Neptune " was train in 1999 by Dr. J. W. Scott at the University of Florida ’s Gulf Coast Research and Education center .

Brandywine

" Brandywine , " an indeterminate 1885 Amish heirloom , produces large ( up to 1 pound ) pink - reddened yield in 80 days . Meaty , intensely flavour fruits grow along sprawl vine . " Brandywine " shows bully disease resistance than most heirloom , with opposition to tobacco mosaic virus and verticillium wilt . It first appear in the Seed Savers Exchange collection in 1982 .

Rutgers

" Rutgers , " a bright red tomato bred in the 1920s , is a definitive variety that maturate within 75 twenty-four hours . Rutgers resists cracking and shows disease resistivity to alternaria stem canker , fusarium wilt , gray leaf spot and verticillium wilt . " Rutgers " is most often used for canning because of its high production and blue texture .

Rust Disease On Tomato Plants

Late blight is get by the Phytophtheora infestans fungus and is a coarse disease of tomato on the West coast of the United States and in positioning with in high spirits humidity and periods of cool temperatures . Late blight can have knockout losses to tomato crops and spreads easily from septic potato and tomato plant . Root infection are called " black dot root rot . " Fusarium wilt disease is triggered by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp . The foliage on infect branch will jaundiced , wilt and eventually overlook . The verticillium wilting fungus populate in the ground and blocks the weewee - conducting tissue paper of the Lycopersicon esculentum plant , but unlike fusarium wilt , the disease does not show symptoms on one side only . Verticillium - resistant plant life are label with a " V. "

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