Mitch,

As you probably know, crossing two stable varieties results in a hybrid tomato.

We have briefly touched on the same or similar subject in This Thread where the following two resources were linked:

Hybrid Seed Production and Crossing Tomatoes .

Since you also have the goal of a stabilized open pollinated new variety, you may wish to read from This Resourse Page .

Good luck with your projects!

Bill

http://www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/Tomato/xingtom.html
http://kdcomm.net/~tomato/gene/genes.html
http://www.avrdc.org/LC/tomato/hybrid/01title.html
http://www.avrdc.org/LC/tomato/hybrid/08emasc.html

Books:
The Tomato Crop: a scientific basis for improvement Atherton, J.G. and Rudlich, J. 1986. Chapman and Hall ltd.

# Tomato Kalloo, G. in Genetic Improvement of Vegetable Crops. Kalloo, G. and Bergh, B.O.1993 Peragamon Press. pp 645-668

# Vegetable Breeding Volume III, Kalloo, G. 1988. CRC Press.

# Breeding Vegetable Crops Bassett, J. 1986. AVI

# "Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties", Carol Deppe. Little, Brown and Company ISBN 0-316-18104-8

Wow, thanks. You guys rock.