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VINE TOMATO [4 records]

Record 1 2018-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Culture of Fruit Trees
Universal entry(ies)
CONT

Plants resembling true melons include the watermelon; the Chinese watermelon ...; the melon tree ...; and the melon shrub, or pear melon (Solanum muricatum), with purple fruit and yellow aromatic flesh, native to the Andes.

CONT

The pepino, or pepino dulce, is an exotic fruit that is produced from the pepino plant, which is a small bush that resembles a tomato vine and which grows to approximately three feet in height.... The pepino has a taste that is similar to a cucumber, cantaloupe, and a honeydew melon. Because of this, other common names for the pepino include melon shrub, tree melon, mellowfruit, pear melon, and the sweet cucumber.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Arboriculture fruitière
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
CONT

Plante du plateau des Andes produisant de beaux fruits en forme d'œuf à saveur légère rappelant un mélange entre le concombre, le melon et la poire, et avec une odeur distincte de banane. Fruits ovales de 12 cm de longueur, de couleur crème à jaune pâle, striés de bandes mauves. Chair jaune, tendre et très juteuse, comme le cantaloup. Plante à feuillage de patate et fleurs mauves semblables à celles des tomates.

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Plant Breeding
  • Biotechnology
CONT

Calgene Fresh... has completed what it believes to be the final data on the FLAVR SAVR(TM) tomato-the new genetically engineered tomato which does not soften as rapidly as other tomatoes, enabling it to be left on the vine until its natural flavor fully develops...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Amélioration végétale
  • Biotechnologie
OBS

La tomate McGregor possède dans son patrimoine génétique un gène supplémentaire qui ralentit son pourrissement. Cette tomate peut être cueillie mûre sans poser de problèmes de conservation. Les tomates «normales», elles, sont récoltées vertes puis mûries artificiellement (par un traitement à l'éthylène) afin d'éviter qu'elles ne s'abîment durant leur transport.

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vegetable Crop Production
  • Food Industries
CONT

A new and popular tomato product is a cluster of vine-ripened fruit still attached to the stems. These products are known as ’cluster tomatoes’, ’cluster-harvested tomatoes’, ’truss tomatoes’, or ’on-the-vine tomatoes’. The term ’truss tomatoes’ is frequently used in Europe, and ’cluster tomatoes’ is used in the United States. Cluster tomatoes are currently grown as a greenhouse crop throughout the world, although some limited trials are being conducted with outdoor production.

CONT

Cluster tomatoes grown by Hollandia Produce arrive for market distribution still attached to the vine, cut from the mother plant at the proper vine-ripened time.

OBS

Fruit are bunched like grapes on the cluster. The cluster stem remains green after harvest for a long time.

OBS

Mostly used in the plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production légumière
  • Industrie de l'alimentation

Spanish

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Record 4 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vegetable Crop Production

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production légumière

Spanish

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