dannyking
Well-Known Member
remember in the simpsons when homer made the tomacco plant by fertilizing their field with plutonium or some other nuclear substance?? well this has been achieved in real life. oh yes. not using plutonium though.
Real tomacco
In 2003, inspired by The Simpsons, Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Oregon successfully grafted a tomato plant onto the roots of a tobacco plant. Both plants are members of the same family, Solanaceae or nightshade.
The plant produced spawn that looked like a normal tomato, but Baur suspected that it contained a lethal amount of nicotine and thus would be inedible. Testing later proved that the leaves of the plant contained some nicotine. The world's first tomacco, destroyed in the testing process, contained no nicotine. The second tomacco was given to a Simpsons writer. The third was sold on eBay and the fourth was eaten by a Xerox engineer who suffered no apparent ill effects from the tomacco. The Tomacco plant bore tomaccoes until it died after 18 months, spending one winter indoors.
The process of making tomacco was first revealed in a 1959 Scientific American article, which stated that nicotine could be found in the tomato plant after grafting. Due to the academic and industrial importance of this breakthrough process, this article was reprinted in a 1968 Scientific American compilation, Bio-Organic Chemistry, on page 170. (ISBN 0-7167-0974-0)
The 2004 convention of the American Dialect Society named tomacco as the new word "least likely to succeed."[1] Tomacco was Word Spy "word of the Day". Word Spy - tomacco
i was just wondering if it would be possible to graft a marijuana plant to a tomattow plantand produce a similar outcome?? I think i read somewhere that marijuana and tomatoes are of the same family??
Real tomacco
In 2003, inspired by The Simpsons, Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Oregon successfully grafted a tomato plant onto the roots of a tobacco plant. Both plants are members of the same family, Solanaceae or nightshade.
The plant produced spawn that looked like a normal tomato, but Baur suspected that it contained a lethal amount of nicotine and thus would be inedible. Testing later proved that the leaves of the plant contained some nicotine. The world's first tomacco, destroyed in the testing process, contained no nicotine. The second tomacco was given to a Simpsons writer. The third was sold on eBay and the fourth was eaten by a Xerox engineer who suffered no apparent ill effects from the tomacco. The Tomacco plant bore tomaccoes until it died after 18 months, spending one winter indoors.
The process of making tomacco was first revealed in a 1959 Scientific American article, which stated that nicotine could be found in the tomato plant after grafting. Due to the academic and industrial importance of this breakthrough process, this article was reprinted in a 1968 Scientific American compilation, Bio-Organic Chemistry, on page 170. (ISBN 0-7167-0974-0)
The 2004 convention of the American Dialect Society named tomacco as the new word "least likely to succeed."[1] Tomacco was Word Spy "word of the Day". Word Spy - tomacco
i was just wondering if it would be possible to graft a marijuana plant to a tomattow plantand produce a similar outcome?? I think i read somewhere that marijuana and tomatoes are of the same family??
