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Win the battle against Rugose

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Sometimes you can have it all: Security, Performance & Innovation

At BASF | Nunhems, we provide the essential traits that lead to success: disease resistance, high yield, and exceptional flavor. We help growers achieve secure and profitable yields in an efficient manner for all growing conditions and every market.

We believe tomato growers shouldn’t have to choose between security and performance. That’s why our next-generation ToBRFV-resistant varieties and rootstocks are designed to deliver strong protection, high yields, and outstanding quality – all in one package.  

With our proven rootstocks and a growing portfolio of resistant hybrids, we’re setting new standards in crop security, ensuring your plants stay resilient in any growing environment. But we don’t stop at disease resistance. Our innovative breeding approach maximizes yield, enhances fruit quality, and ensures shelf life, so you can meet the increasing demands of the market without compromise. 

Our offering 

For our round and cluster varieties, we focus on yield, vigor, fruit weight, firmness and shelf life as key traits. We focus on taste, yield and appearance for our cherry types, both round and plum. Five to eight new resistant hybrids will be launched in 2025. Amongst the new launches are varieties for rootstock, cherries, Pink, Cluster, and round types, adding to our portfolio of over 30 ToBRFV-resistant varieties. 

All in all, we offer over 200 tomato varieties, including top sellers:  

  • Vitalion in cherry for high-tech 
  • Ronvine in cluster for high-tech  
  • Azovian and Strongston  in the saladette segment 
  • Cabosur, Tobriva and Caboluna and Redguard for cluster tomatoes 
  • Seyran in round spring-summer segment in Turkey 
  • Almerink for Pink Europe 
  • Mohikan for winter Single harvest 

And newcomers for mid-tech productions like  

  • Starsafe in cluster long cycle tomatoes in Turkey   
  • Beires for cluster   
  • Miravian for saladette export  
  • Daivion for cherry round cluster harvest   
  • Avrion for cherry plum single harvest  
  • Siurion for cherry plum single harvest   
  • Dreampower for rootstock tomato 
  • XIdejia and Xiderui for China Pink Autumn-Spring segment single harvest   
  • Palmeo for round segment for Spain and Marocco 
  • Starvine in cluster segment for high tech 
  • Marvellion in cocktail for high-tech 
  • Culturion in cherry for high-tech 
  • Showvine in cluster for high-tech 
  • NUN 09399 in Intense saladette for high-tech 
  • Nun 6226 for Intense Mid Tech 

Tobriva - Cluster tomatoes

Tech sheets

Customers about BASF | Nunhems: 

Discover our Tomato Experience Center in Kwintsheul, the Netherlands
Immerse yourself in the world of over 150 ToBRFV-resistant tomato varieties in our Tomato Experience Center in the Netherlands. The Center offers a unique platform for customers to explore, test, and showcase these innovative varieties grown in high-tech conditions. Taste, slice, and experience firsthand the exceptional flavors and textures that our tomatoes have to offer. Our Tomato Experience Center also features modern meeting facilities, providing a space for strategic discussions and collaboration opportunities. 
Curious to see the impact of our solutions firsthand? Join us at the Tomato Experience Center and be inspired by our passion for innovation and top-notch quality in the tomato business. 
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Our experts about the battle against Rugose: 

Goodbye Food Loss: How The Right Seed Helps Growers to Overcome a Tomato Virus
Imagine you’re a tomato grower looking forward to your next harvest – when suddenly, you see it: distorted leaves and brown, wrinkly spots on some of your fruits. Out of nowhere, your worst nightmare has become reality. Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV) continues to be a disaster for tomato farmers worldwide. Resistant varieties are proving to be the only effective solution.
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Harm Ammerlaan
Regional Crop Lead
Ester Serrano Banuls
Regional Crop Lead
Jose de Jesus Morales
Regional Crop Lead