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Vegetable Variety Investigations and Breeding of Major 
Truck Crops Adaptable to Washington Growing Conditions (Green- 
house Tomatoes) To (1 develop by breeding greenhouse tomatoes 
and selecting new varieties of vegetables that are suitable 
in yield and quality for fresh use and processing purposes as 
well as being adapted to one or more climatic areas of 
Washington; (2) test new varieties and strains in the 
important producing areas of Washington, including Columbia 
Basin; (3) obtain information on quality as related to 
climatic conditions as well as disease and insect 
resistance; and (4) conduct freezing and canning tests of 
new strains with cooperation of Fruit and Vegetable by-products 
and pilot labs. 
Hort. 1129 
Improvement of Tomato Varieties for West Virginia. To 
(1) select by extensive testing, tomato varieties with 
resistance to late blight and other diseases, insects of 
unfavorable environal factors commonly found in West Virginia; 
(2) incorporate these resistant characters into high yielding 
and high quality tomato varieties adapted to the growing 
conditions of West Virginia by crossing, backcrossing and 
selection, in both field and greenhouse; (3) determine 
nature, variability and method of inheritance of resistance 
to tomato diseases and to injuries by insects and 
environmental factors; and (4) study pathogens for 
occurrence of pathogenic races and study any phase of 
diseases fundamental to program. 
Pl. Path., Ent., Hort. 58 
