Since 2014, ToBRFV has posed a serious threat to global tomato production—reducing yields, increasing costs, and putting product quality under pressure across the supply chain. Our HREZ portfolio offers a new way forward. Developed through advanced breeding and close collaboration with producers worldwide, these varieties provide high resistance under ToBRFV pressure—while maintaining the taste, yield, and quality the market demands.
HREZ is designed to actively limit virus impact while safeguarding crop performance. By combining strong resistance with reliable productivity, it helps maintain yield and quality under challenging conditions. The result is greater predictability in production and improved business continuity, even in the face of ongoing ToBRFV pressure.
A crucial factor in limiting virus impact and reducing spread within the crop.
Maintains strong crop performance, including quality, yield, and taste.
After years of uncertainty, HREZ supports a more balanced and stable production situation. By actively blocking the virus and protecting the plant HREZ helps limit the impact of ToBRFV.
By actively blocking the virus from spreading in the plant, HREZ helps keep virus pressure low — when combined with strict hygiene—supporting a more sustainable approach over time.
Varieties across all key tomato types, suited to different cropping systems and growing conditions.
This provides more confidence in being able to harvest and market the crop, helping to keep operations running as planned.
HREZ rootstocks help reduce virus multiplication in the roots, lowering overall pressure in the soil.
Supports better planning across the value chain and helps maintain a more consistent supply of quality products.
Did you know that ToBRFV can persist in the soil for years, affecting your tomato crops? HREZ rootstocks fortify the root system, preventing virus entry and reducing ToBRFV multiplication in the soil. This extra layer of defence, combined with HREZ varieties and effective phytosanitary measures, leads to fortified tomato plants. With HREZ rootstocks, you can ensure a healthier, more productive future for your crops.
Hands, tools, shoes and surfaces that encounter plants.
A new zone requires new gloves & clothing. Always dispose used ones.
Only handle when necessary to avoid wounding.
In this series, our Senior Researcher Phytopathology Manus Thoen takes on the myths about HREZ that spread just as fast as the virus itself. Together with experts from our breeding, diagnostics, pathology, and molecular biology, he unpacks misconceptions about HREZ, our High Resistance to ToBRFV.
Our HREZ portfolio combines outstanding taste with strong agronomic performance and consistent quality. At our Innovation Center in Pijnacker, you can explore the full range firsthand - seeing, tasting, and experiencing the full assortment up close and see how our varieties perform in practice. Plan your visit and discover how HREZ can elevate your results.
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