The world's leading vegetable crop by value, domesticated in the Americas from a wild cherry-sized fruit and carried to Europe in the Columbian Exchange, where it was long grown as an ornamental curiosity before conquering the world's kitchens. Botanically a fruit, farmed and traded as a vegetable, and the flagship crop of greenhouse horticulture. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Scientific Name Domestication RegionWestern South America and Mesoamerica (Mexico the likely center of full domestication) 1 Domesticated When (Circa)by circa 500 BC in Mesoamerica 1 Era
Era (category) Tomato
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Source Alternaria alternata (Wikipedia)
Source Fusarium Wilt (Wikipedia)
Source Late Blight (Wikipedia)
Source Moniliophthora perniciosa (Wikipedia)
Source Penicillium expansum (Wikipedia)
Source Late Blight (Wikipedia)
Source Pleospora herbarum (Wikipedia)
Source Silverleaf Whitefly (Wikipedia)
Source Stemphylium lycopersici (Wikipedia)
Source Thielaviopsis basicola (Wikipedia)
Source Tobacco Mosaic Virus (Wikipedia)
Source Tomato Leafminer (Wikipedia)
Source Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (Wikipedia)
Source Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (Wikipedia)
Source Verticillium Wilt (Wikipedia)
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Fusarium wilt of tomato (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici) is the archetypal disease that gave the fungus its host-specific 'forma specialis' naming.
Late blight (Phytophthora infestans) attacks tomato as well as potato and caused the Irish famine on the latter.
Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are among the most economically damaging pathogens of cultivated tomato worldwide.
The tomato leafminer (Tuta absoluta) is one of the most damaging invasive insect pests of cultivated tomato.
Tomato spotted wilt virus is a major thrips-transmitted disease of tomato worldwide.
Tomato yellow leaf curl virus, spread by whitefly, is one of the most damaging tomato viral diseases globally.
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The tomato (US:, UK:; Solanum lycopersicum) is a plant whose fruit is an edible berry that is eaten as a vegetable.
History section
The exact date of domestication is unknown; the site of domestication was either western South America or Central America.
View the Source Silverleaf Whitefly (Wikipedia)
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Common hosts are agricultural crops including tomatoes, squash, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, melons, cotton, carrots, sweet potato, cucumber, and pumpkin, and ornamental plants such as poinsettia, crepe myrtle, garden roses, lantana, and lilies.
View the Source Tomato Leafminer (Wikipedia)
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In favorable weather conditions, eight to ten generations can occur in a single year. === Hosts === Tomato is the main host plant, but T. absoluta also attacks other crop plants of the nightshade family, including potato, eggplant, pepino, pepper and tobacco.
View the Source Late Blight (Wikipedia)
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The organism infects various members of the Solanaceae family, such as the potato (Solanum tuberosum) and the tomato.
Affected By: Phytophthora infestans, Lead section
The organism infects various members of the Solanaceae family, such as the potato (Solanum tuberosum) and the tomato.
View the Source Fusarium Wilt (Wikipedia)
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Tomato, tobacco, legumes, cucurbits, sweet potatoes and banana are a few of the most susceptible plants, but it also infects other herbaceous plants.
View the Source Tobacco Mosaic Virus (Wikipedia)
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It is known to infect members of nine plant families, and at least 125 individual species, including tobacco, tomato, pepper (all members of the Solanaceae), cucumbers, a number of ornamental flowers, and beans including Phaseolus vulgaris and Vigna unguiculata.
View the Source Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (Wikipedia)
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The host range of TSWV includes agronomically important crops such as tomatoes and tobacco.
View the Source Verticillium Wilt (Wikipedia)
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Many economically important plants are susceptible including cotton, tomatoes, potatoes, oilseed rape, eggplants, peppers and ornamentals, as well as others in natural vegetation communities.
View the Source Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (Wikipedia)
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The primary host for TYLCV is the tomato plant, and other plant hosts where TYLCV infection has been found include eggplants, potatoes, tobacco, beans, and peppers.
View the Source Alternaria alternata (Wikipedia)
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Alternaria alternata f.sp. lycopersici (AAL) infects only certain cultivars of tomato plants and is often referred to as Alternaria stem canker of tomato.
View the Source Moniliophthora perniciosa (Wikipedia)
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Under experimental conditions, this biotype is also able to cause witches' broom symptoms on tomato, aubergine, pepper and potato.
View the Source Thielaviopsis basicola (Wikipedia)
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Examples of susceptible hosts include petunia, pansy, poinsettia, tobacco, cotton, carrot, lettuce, tomato, and others.
View the Source Penicillium expansum (Wikipedia)
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Though primarily known as a disease of apples, this plant pathogen can infect a wide range of hosts, including pears, strawberries, tomatoes, corn, and rice.
View the Source Pleospora herbarum (Wikipedia)
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It is a plant pathogen infecting several hosts including alfalfa, apples, asparagus, tomatoes, citruses and chickpea.
View the Source Stemphylium lycopersici (Wikipedia)
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Stemphylium lycopersici is a plant pathogen infecting tomatoes, lettuce, Capsicum and papayas.
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The Pathogen Behind a Famine
Tomato: cited because late blight's own attested relationship to this crop is what shows its reach was never limited to potato alone.
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