Identification and characterisation of the tomato parthenocarpic mutant high fruit set under stress (hfs) exhibiting high productivity under heat and salt stress

Pollination and therefore fruit set in tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ) is very sensitive to temperature. Parthenocarpy can be a very useful trait in tomato breeding in sustainable agriculture faced with global warming. Within a collection of Moneymaker tomato mutants a monogenic and recessive mutant with high fruit number was identified in heat stress conditions and named high fruit set under stress ( hfs ). No morphological alterations in...