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Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant

Posted by simoniker on from the mu-hey-mu-hey dept.

An anonymous reader writes "So, according to a KPTV newscast, a Simpsons fan with too much time on his hands grafted a tobacco plant and a tomato plant and, ta-da: tomacco! Leaves and most likely the fruit (yes, tomato is a fruit technically) contain nicotine. Delicious AND deadly!" Simpsonschannel.com has a small news piece on the breakthrough, but in a Frink-like move, although scientists have found "nicotine in the leaves", it turns out "the lab hasn't tested if the actual tomato has nicotine in it yet, but they say it probably does."

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  1. They are. by benjamindees · · Score: 5, Informative


    They are both nightshades.

    Tomato plants can get the Tobacco Mosaic virus, too.

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  2. This is sooo old news! The Reds beat us to it! by G4from128k · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its common knowledge that tomatos can be grafted on to a wide range of plants in the Solanum family including potatoes, tobacco, Datura, etc. In fact the Russians made a tomacco back in 1956 (See Glavinic, R., 1956 (Vegetative hybridization between tomato and tobacco). Priroda (Nature), Leningrad No. 11: 98-100. (Russian)).

    Now if we only had only had slashdot back in 1956.....

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