{"id":16195,"date":"2025-07-15T14:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/?p=16195"},"modified":"2025-07-15T15:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:32:35","slug":"tomatoes-responding-to-the-spread-of-tobrfv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/tomatoes-responding-to-the-spread-of-tobrfv\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomatoes: Responding to the spread of ToBRFV"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Grootscholten of Agro Care on the left and Frank van Antwerpen, Product Manager Tomato for Western Europe, on the right.. Photo: Enza Zaden<\/p><\/div>\n

In recent years, the tomato industry has faced a major challenge from the spread of tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV), and despite many phytosanitary measures, infection rates have continued to rise. New High Resistance varieties will change this in the short term, and Paul Grootscholten of Agro Care has been evaluating the high resistant \u201cHREZ\u201d varieties from Enza Zaden.<\/p>\n

HREZ is a growing collection of tomato varieties that may herald a long-awaited change for the tomato industry. The first six varieties have been on the market in the Benelux since last year; and in 2023 the range will have expanded to more than twenty HREZ varieties in almost all segments.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo grower wants his plants to die,\u201d explains Paul Grootscholten of Agro Care. \u201cBut in recent years, that has certainly been the reality. Everyone in our company has handled it well, but it\u2019s not something you can control. You\u2019re in survival mode, not knowing what the crop will be like tomorrow.\u201d The situation at Agro Care is now completely different, however, with the arrival of the High Resistance tomato varieties. \u201cWe currently grow almost only HREZ varieties here. The one variety that is not yet resistant will be replaced next year. It\u2019s great for us to be able to focus fully on cultivation once again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new varieties arrived just in time for Grootscholten and his colleagues: \u201cIt was a waiting game; we were a bit on edge, of course.\u201d Still, he\u2019s pleased with the pace at which High Resistance options have become available. After all, it was only relatively recently, in 2016, that one plant at Enza Zaden exhibited a remarkable and promising performance. While it normally can take\u00a0well over seven years before that would lead to a new introduction on the market, there are already more than 500 hectares of High Resistance tomatoes in the Benelux sector.<\/p>\n

Read the full article in the JanFeb2024 sample copy<\/a><\/p>\n

Published in<\/strong> International Pest Control \u2013 January\/February 2024 issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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