LACTUCA SATIVA VARIETY SUPERSTAR

Fuente: WIPO "tomato"
A novel non-heading green leaf lettuce variety is disclosed. The variety is characterized by high tolerance to tipburn, genetic resistance to tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV), excellent resistance to downy mildew (DM18), a darker green leaf color, thick leaf texture, and is designated Superstar. This disclosure thus relates to the seeds of lettuce variety Superstar, to the plants of lettuce variety Superstar, to plant parts of lettuce variety Superstar, to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing a plant of lettuce variety Superstar with a plant of another lettuce variety, and to methods for producing a plant of lettuce variety Superstar containing in its genetic material one or more backcross conversion traits or transgenes and to the backcross conversion lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods.