{{Short description|Disease resistant tomato}} {{more citations needed|date=April 2010}} The '''Marglobe''' tomato was developed in 1917 by Frederick J. Pritchard of the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Experiment Station by crossing the Marvel and Globe tomatoes ("Marglobe" is a fusion of the two names). It was publicly released by the USDA in 1925, and was one of the first disease-resistant strains that also had a good resistance to Verticillium and Fusarium wilt.<ref>"Descriptions of Principle Types of American Varieties of Tomatoes", USDA, October, 1933; "Yearbook of Agriculture", USDA, 1937"</ref> The Marglobe tomato is the parent of many tomato varieties, such as Rutgers.
The Seed Savers Exchange yearbook lists several types of Marglobe variants: Marglobe F, Marglobe Improved, Marglobe Larson, Marglobe Supreme, and Marglobe Supreme F.
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==External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110408070040/http://www.saveseeds.org/biography/pritchard/index.html Dr. Frederick J. Pritchard]
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Category:Hybrid tomato cultivars