Description:
A highly heterozygous seed line derived from the open pollination of 176 plants from six different sources which survived for 16 months in the presence of the northern root-knot nematode. Sources from which selections were made, number of plants selected and percent contribution to the intercross were: lines directly from Eski (86, 49%), W-40 (32, 18%), Remont (30, 17%), and Melrose (28, 16%).