Solanum pimpinellifolium
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S. pimpinellifolium
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| Solanum pimpinellifolium[1] L., 1755
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Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium (L.) Mill. |
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Solanum pimpinellifolium, commonly known as the currant tomato,[3] is a wild species of tomato[4] native to Ecuador and Peru but naturalized elsewhere, such as the Galápagos Islands. Its small fruits are edible, and it is commonly grown in gardens as an heirloom tomato,[5] although it is considered to be wild[6] rather than domesticated as is the commonly cultivated tomato species Solanum lycopersicum. Its genome was recently sequenced.[7]
Breeding purposes
It will hybridize with common domestic tomatoes.[8] There are annual, biennial, and perennial varieties.[9] Solanum pimpinellifolium is important in tomato breeding.
Its relatedness to tomatoes[10] and ability to freely cross with them has allowed it to be used for the introduction of disease resistance traits in tomato varieties, as well as in the study of the genetic control of tomato traits such as fruit shape and size.[9] Its 900 Mb genome differs from the tomato at 0.6% of base pairs; in comparison, they both differ from the potato (from which they diverged 7.3 million years ago) at 8% of bases.[7][11]
References
- ↑ http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/4084, Uniprot Taxonomy, Species Solanum pimpinellifolium (Currant tomato) (Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium) , Retrieved January 28, 2011.
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- ↑ http://solgenomics.net/about/solanum_nomenclature.pl, Sol Genomics, New nomenclature for lycopersicon, Retrieved February 17, 2013, from Spooner, D.M., I.E. Peralta & S. Knapp. AFLP phylogeny of wild tomatoes [Solanum L. section Lycopersicon (Mill.) Wettst. subsection Lycopersicon ]. Taxon, in press.
- ↑ http://www.tomatocasual.com/2008/04/18/smallest-tomato-the-currant-tomato-and-other-small-wonders, Tomato Casual: Smallest Tomato: The Currant Tomato and other Small Wonders, Retrieved February 18, 2013.
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- ↑ http://solgenomics.net/chado/organism.pl?organism_id=770, Sol Genomics, Species: Solanum pimpinellifolium, Retrieved January 28, 2011.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/solanaceaesource/taxonomy/description-detail.jsp?spnumber=4614, Natural History Museum, Solanaceae Source, Solanum pimpinellifolium L., Cent. Pl. 1: 8. 1755. Type: Cultivated in Uppsala, Anon. (lectotype, LINN 248.15 [BH neg. 6802], designated by Knapp & Jarvis 1990), Retrieved January 28, 2011.
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- ↑ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126907678
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