The Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L., Solanaceae) and Its Botanical Relatives

The cultivated tomato, Solanum lycopersicum L., is a member of the small section Lycopersicon along with its 12 wild relatives. An additional four species from sections Juglandifolia and Lycopersicoides are traditionally considered as tomato wild relatives. These species are all endemic to South America, but the cultivated tomato itself has achieved worldwide distribution with the help of human populations. Tomato and its wild relatives are part of a larger monophyletic group (the Potato clade) that also contains the potatoes and their wild relatives. Here we review the taxonomic and phylogenetic history, relationships and species-level taxonomy of the cultivated tomato and its wild relatives, and highlight important studies of diversity that remain to be undertaken in the group, especially in light of global environmental and climatic change.

Citation

Knapp S., Peralta I.E. (2016) The Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L., Solanaceae) and Its Botanical Relatives. In: Causse M., Giovannoni J., Bouzayen M., Zouine M. (eds) The Tomato Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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Book chapter

Item Description

The attached document is the author’s final pre-print version of the book chapter. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from it: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53389-5_2
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Compendium of Plant Genomes

ISBN

9783662533895