Bella Rosa
F1 hybrid tomato · Solanum lycopersicum
- Breeding
- F1 hybrid
- Growth habit
- Determinate
- Days to maturity
- 72-76 days
- Fruit
- red, large
- Weight
- -
- Bred by
- Sakata Seed
Origin & history
Sakata's heat-set southern slicer pairing TSWV resistance with dependable fruit set in Gulf-state summers.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 72-76 days | Consensus range across the cited independent references. |
Trial results
What this variety did in published university trials. These are observations of a season, not properties of the seed, so they are kept separate from the measurements above and are never merged into them. Letters are each report's own mean-separation groups.
Yield and Income of Fall Staked Tomato Cultivars in Eastern Kentucky
2009 · Quicksand, Kentucky · fall · published as "Bella Rosa"
| Measurement | Result | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Marketable yield | 15,193 lb/ac a | Diameter-class grading of breaker-stage fruit, Per-acre yield extrapolated from small research plots |
| Cull rate | 1.9 % ef | Diameter-class grading of breaker-stage fruit |
| Fruit weight | 9.6 oz ab | Mean fruit weight from plot counts and weights |
Each trial states its own limits, and they are worth reading before acting on any figure here. Yields in these reports are extrapolated from small research plots and run higher than commercial farms achieve; cull rates reflect the disease pressure of one particular season.
Traits
Disease resistance
| Code | Disease | Level | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSWV | Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (Orthotospovirus tomatomaculae) | resistant | Independently observed |
| V | Verticillium Wilt (Verticillium dahliae) | resistant | Independently observed |
| FF | Fusarium Wilt of Tomato (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici) | resistant | Independently observed |
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Sources & References
Evidence: 2 sources, all independent references.
- Tomato Production and Cultivar Guides · University of Florida IFAS Extension, University or Government
- Yield and Income of Fall Staked Tomato Cultivars in Eastern Kentucky · University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture (2009), University or Government