Tomato Flower (Center, Yellow) and Flowers of Related Solanaceae Family Plants (IMAGE)
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An image of a tomato flower (center) surrounded by flowers from tobacco (white and pink) and petunia (red). All three are all members of the Solanaceae family of plants, which also includes the crops pepper and eggplant. Solanaceae species show remarkable variation in the number of flowers they produce on their reproductive shoots called inflorescences and mutants in tomato like the single flower mutants shown at bottom recreate the inflorescence architectures of single single-flowered Solanaceae species like pepper, petunia, and tobacco.
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Copyright Zach Lippman, Ph.D. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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