David’s Garden seed catalog describes their “Summer Crisp Ch…

David’s Garden seed catalog describes their “Summer Crisp Cherokee 200” lettuce as follows: Cherokee is a summer crisp and is heat tolerant. Thick, crisp, dark red leaves with good flavor. Very slow bolting with excellent tolerance to heat and bottom rot. Resistant to DM races 1-16, 19, and 21. Harvest in about 50 days. These seeds were bred with [1] resistance to downy mildew, which is easy for breeders to identify and incorporate, but is also easily defeated by mutations within the pathogen population. To help extend the usefulness of this cultivar, they have used a “[2]” approach, stacking multiple known resistance genes in a single cultivar.