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Generation next Hybrid Seeds

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Hybrid Tomatos & Peppers Developed at Hebrew University Achieve Worldwide Sales Success :


Genetically enhanced hybrid peppers & Tomatoes developed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that can be raised with minimal protection under moderate winter conditions have achieved worldwide commercial success. Pepper is one of the major vegetable crops in the world and in Israel. 
The robust pepper varieties were developed by a research team headed by Dr. Yonatan Elkind of the Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture at the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences in Rehovot. The research receives financial support from and is carried out in collaboration with the Zeraim Gedera company. 
The genetic improvements embodied in the peppers they have developed widen the ecological conditions under which they can be grown and also facilitate the use of simple greenhouses and netting instead of expensive structures.The peppers, in various colors, have been raised to produce high yields under night-time conditions as low as 10 degrees Celsius, which is much lower than previous hybrids that required temperatures higher than 18 degrees Celsius and needed costly heating to grow and develop.The new hybrids are characterized by high yields, a long growing season, resistance to viruses, firm fruit, good vine storage capacity, long shelf-life, and low sensitivity to cracking. 
The breeding project involved large-scale experiments with more than 25,000 plants a year, grown in target areas, mainly in the Arava region of southern Israel and the south of Spain. Dr. Elkind noted that vegetable production under mild winter conditions and using simple plastic or net protection is one of the most rapidly expanding, protective cultivation systems worldwide. The major areas which use this production method, in addition to Israel and Spain, are Mexico and China.
The hybrids developed by the researchers – which to a large extent have replaced seed varieties formerly imported into Israel from Holland & Spain .