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Old 26-04-2003, 01:23 PM
Archimedes Plutonium
 
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Default tomato existed before the potato tomato? Solanum or Lycopersicon

I do not have proof of that claim. For I think the genome of the potato and
tomato plants are decades away from obtaining and the comparing of those
2 genomes. The wild potato and wild tomato not the hybridized domestic
stocks.

But I think I can make the claim from commonsense reasoning. That the
wild tomato was borne in the hot jungles and outlying regions of South
America in a habitat that was not harsh. The potato on the other hand was
born in a habitat of harsh conditions, cold, arid, high in the mountains and
this required adaptions. The adaptions were that the tomato proclivity to throw
shoots from its vining stems became a potato root tuber and to store nutrients
in the tuber for the high dry mountains of South America. In this view the tomato
extended its range from the easy life in the hot moist jungle of South America
and extend that into the high, cold, dry mountains.

Archimedes Plutonium,
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies