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Ask any foodie — the ideal tomato is grown outdoors in the finest soil; it matures throughout the early and midsummer, just in time for harvest before winter temperatures sweep in and ruin the crop.
The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden is a nonfiction book by William Alexander, published in 2006. The $64 Tomato was a nominee for Quill Award in the debut author of the year category [1] and was selected for the 2006 National Book Festival. [2]
Calgene scientists used the modified bacterial parasite Agrobacterium tumefaciens to transfer genetic material into Flavr Savr plant cells. The bacterium normally "infects" plants with foreign genes as a part of its life cycle. The harmful, parasitic genetic material was removed from the bacterial T-plasmid and was replaced by the favored genes ...
Moneymaker tomato, an heirloom tomato cultivar "The Moneymaker", a 1956 episode of The 20th Century-Fox Hour; See also. Shake Your Moneymaker (disambiguation)
Plum tomato: Red Looks almost identical with Roma tomato: Raf tomato: Red Raspberry Lyanna Pink Open Pollinated Hybrid 6–10 oz Oblate Semi-Determinate Regular Leaf Canning Slicing Sweet, rich flavor. [107] [108] Rebekah Allen Pink 65–70 Heirloom Round Indeterminate Regular Leaf Some disease resistance. Complex, balanced flavor. [109] [110 ...
Ailsa Craig (originally "Balch's Ailsa Craig") is a medium-sized red variety of tomato.It was first bred in 1908 by nurseryman Alan Balch of Girvan, Scotland [1] as a cross between the varieties "Balch's Fillbasket" and "Carter's Sunrise", [2] and was introduced to market by Alexander and Brown in 1912. [3]
Cladosporium fulvum is an Ascomycete called Passalora fulva, a non-obligate pathogen that causes the disease on tomatoes known as the tomato leaf mold. [1] P. fulva only attacks tomato plants, especially the foliage, and it is a common disease in greenhouses, but can also occur in the field. [2] The pathogen is likely to grow in humid and cool ...
In 1988, Good Morning America reported that Johnson was the first to eat a tomato in the United States, [17] but there are hundreds such stories about other individuals – Thomas Jefferson, a Shaker bride, immigrant Italians (e.g., Michele Felice Cornè), and many others – even though the tomato was long recognized as edible throughout ...