Botany After Dark31 Jul 2019

The Tomato | Botany After Dark, Epi 2

Episode Notes

Today, we venture into the world of the tomato, exploring its storied history. What is this plant, how was it misrepresented for centuries, and do the species grow? That is what we will discuss in today's episode of Botany After Dark.

Cover Art: Image by Couleur from Pixabay | Music: "Forest of Fear" by Aakash Gandhi

Pronounciations: Nawatl Pronunciation | Tomatl Pronounciation

Sources: Veggie Cages: “Tomato” | Smithsonian: “Why the tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years" | East Hampton Star: “Killer Tomatoes” | Nawatl Wiki | Quora results that led to further research | WebMD: “Tingling in Hands and Feet” | ChemEurope: “Tomato” BC DPIC: “Nightshade Plant” | UniProt (Gene Sequencing) “Protenomes: Tomatoes” | Rob Nelson’s Youtube Channel | The Spruce Eats: “The History of Tomatoes as Food” | The Spruce: “Determinite vs Interderminite Tomatoes” | The Spruce: “Why are the bottoms of my tomatoes rotting?” | Phys.org: “Nightshades' mating habits strike uneasy evolutionary blance”

Ankarloo, Bengt & Henningsen, Gustav (red.), Skrifter. Bd 13, Häxornas Europa 1400-1700 : historiska och antropologiska studier, Nerenius & Santérus, Stockholm, 1987

WHO, “Lead Poisoning”: "Lead poisoning and health". WHO. September 2016. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

Smith, A. F. (1994). The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture, and Cookery. Columbia SC, US: University of South Carolina Press

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