The pavement fell into a sinkhole on Poplar Plains...  ...by with no repairs in sight. Then someone planted tomatoes in it! The neighbors began taking care of the gar...  ...ghbors began taking care of the garden, providing tomato cages and water for the plants. The plants grew a...  ...r the plants. The plants...

We've read how plants communicate with each other...  ...havior of other animals, but this takes the cake. Tomato plants have shown the ability to protect themselv...  ...stead! University of Wisconsin in Madison treated tomato plants with methyl jasmonate (MeJA), a chemical k...  ...to communicate a pest warnin...

If it looks like a duck and quacks . . . well, it'...  ...ike a duck and quacks . . . well, it's actually a tomato . But it also looks like a rubber duck. Marie Davi...  ...an grew it in her home garden. She's been raising tomatoes for many years, but has never produced one like t...  ...one like this. Davidek d...

(Photo: Mos Burger)Mos Burger, a Japanese fast foo...  ...ondiments sandwiched between the halves of a huge tomato . They’re available at only one outlet in To...  ...salad instead of fries, is tasty and uses quality tomatoes

These tiny tomatoes , their size measured in millimeters, are one of t...  ...e of the ancient ancestors of the huge variety of tomatoes we eat today. Native to Peru, Solanum pimpinellif...  ...t today. Native to Peru, Solanum pimpinellifolium tomatoes are commonly called &ldquo...

[http://youtu.be/P3SeqPpMnow] (YouTube link)When a...  ...se or not. Food manufacturer Kagome wants to sell tomatoes as a healthy refreshing snack. This wearable robo...  ...wearable robot will feed you up to seven regular tomatoes while you run mile after mile, carrying the 17-po...  ...ouldn’t it be easi...

Ketchup and fries go hand in hand like, .....  ...hand in hand like, ... well, how about potato and tomato ? Meet the "Ketchup 'N' Fries" p...  ..., a chimera plant made from grafting a potato and tomato plant together. It is available from the Territor...  ...f Oregon. Above the ground, the pl...

Hãagen-Dazs is introducing two new ice crea...  ...s introducing two new ice cream flavors in Japan: tomato and carrot. The ice cream will be sold under the...  ...Google translation from the product page:" Cherry tomato "That the leading role the sweetness and flavor o...  ...That the leading role the sw...

In a 1999 episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpsons...  ...mer Simpsons accidentally created the tomacco - a tomato and tobacco hybrid. That frankenplant was...  ...real life tomacco was created when Baur grafted a tomato plant onto tobacco roots - the plant actually liv...  ...co roots - the plant actuall...

After tomato plants were taken back to Europe from the New Wor...  ...t two centuries. The reasoning behind the fear of tomatoes came from several sources:1. Rich people ate tomatoes and then died. Their fancy pewter plates were lat...  ...e reason.2. Scientists of the time...