Question

36. Write the economic importance of
Lycopersicon esculentum.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Lycopersicon lycopersicum, commonly known as tomato is edible, often red, berry belonging to family Solanaceae. Tomato had been previously placed in the genus Solanum as Solanum lycopersicum, but later it has been placed in genus Lycopersicon as Lycopersicon lycopersicum. It is also known as Lycopersicon esculentum. So, the correct answer is 'Lycopersicon lycopersicum'.

Answer 2

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... lycopersicum L. ( lyco means “wolf,” and persicum means “peach”). However, Philip Miller (1754) segregated a new genus, Lycopersicon , from Solanum to accommodate the tomato and several other species and named the tomato Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. ( esculentum means “edible”). At the time, many people thought that the tomato fruit was poisonous; Miller may have wanted to emphasize that it was edible. This name ( Lycopersicon esculentum ) breaches the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN); technically, the name Lycopersicon lycopersicum should have been used. Nevertheless, Lycopersicon esculentum was widely used until recently. Recent studies using morphological characters (Child 1990) and molecular data from both chloro- plast and nuclear genomes (Spooner et al. 1993; Bohs and Olmstead 1997) have shown that tomatoes are a sister group of potatoes ( Solanum tuberosum L.). Tomatoes, potatoes, and their relatives are now taxonomically treated as part of the same genus ( Solanum ) to retain the monophyly of the taxon. Therefore, tomato is currently placed in the genus Solanum and named Solanum lycopersicum per Linnaeus (Darwin et al. 2003; Spooner et al. 2005).