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

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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.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Mathilde Causse for asking us to write this chapter, and all our solanaceous colleagues for years of fruitful research together, especially David M. Spooner and Lynn Bohs. SK thanks the National Science Foundation (USA) for funding under the Planetary Biodiversity Inventory programme (PBI Solanum: a worldwide treatment, DEB-0316614), the European Commission for funding under the FP6 Integrated Project EU-SOL (PL 016214) and SYNTHESYS programme (http://www.synthesys.info/ which is financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP6 “Structuring the European Research Area” Programme); IE thanks María Sance, Pablo Asprelli, Marilu Makuch, Leonardo Togno, Inés Lorello, Patricia Occhiuto, Estela Valle, Marina Insani, Claudio Galmarini, Ramón Asis and Fernando Carrari for all their efforts to recover and valorize genetic resources in Argentina, also to CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, INTA and Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT) for funding under FONCYT (PICTO 08-12903 and PICTR 01942).

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  2. Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Nacional del Cuyo, Almirante Brown 500, 5505, Chacras de Coria, Argentina

    Iris Edith Peralta

  3. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas, (IADIZA-CCT CONICET Mendoza), Calle Adrián Ruiz Leal s/n, 5500, Mendoza, Argentina

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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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53389-5_2

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