Tomato plant vines are typically pubescent, meaning covered with fine short hairs.
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13 Facts About Tomato plant
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The hairs facilitate the vining process, turning into roots wherever the Tomato plant is in contact with the ground and moisture, especially if the vine's connection to its original root has been damaged or severed.
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The name came into wide use, but was technically in breach of the Tomato plant naming rules because Linnaeus's species name lycopersicum still had priority.
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Tomato plant was introduced to China, likely via the Philippines or Macau, in the 1500s.
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Tomato plant arrived in India by the way of Portuguese explorers, in the 16th century.
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Tomato plant was introduced to cultivation in the Middle East by John Barker, British consul in Aleppo circa 1799 to 1825.
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Tomato plant eventually developed over seventeen different varieties of the tomato plant.
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Rick Tomato plant Genetics Resource Center at UC Davis is a gene bank of wild relatives, monogenic mutants and miscellaneous genetic stocks of tomato.
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Tomato plant is grown worldwide for its edible fruits, with thousands of cultivars.
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Tomato plant juice is sold as a drink, and is used in cocktails such as the Bloody Mary.
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Leaves, stem, and green unripe fruit of the tomato plant contain small amounts of the alkaloid tomatine, whose effect on humans has not been studied.
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US city of Reynoldsburg, Ohio calls itself "The Birthplace of the Tomato plant", claiming the first commercial variety of tomato was bred there in the 19th century.
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