2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Do you want french fries sprinkled with ketchup? Now you have the opportunity to get the necessary products for a delicious meal from just one plant. It is about Tomtato - the plant that produces both potatoes and cherry tomatoes. The strange hybrid can now be purchased in the markets of New Zealand and the UK.
The founders of Tomtato are the Island-based company Thomson and Morgan. Once planted, the new plant resembles a standard tomato plant. It gives birth to several dozen cherry tomatoes. If you pull it off the ground, it reveals fully developed potatoes hanging from its roots.
The plant develops in a few months, as is the standard life cycle of tomato and potato plants. The fruits of the plant (both tomatoes and potatoes) ripen at the same time. The manufacturer explains that it is grown at the choice of the owner indoors or outdoors.
Tomtato is not a genetically modified plant, but is created through a process called grafting. The process is a successful combination of two plants in one, so that the area needed for the life of one plant (in this case tomatoes) is combined with healthier or more vigorous roots of another plant - potatoes.
A slight incision is made in the stem of one plant. A part of the other plant is placed in it. The two different plants combine naturally, eventually forming a single plant. The process is known in our latitudes as cooling. It is most successful when the plants are of the same species as in the case of tomatoes and potatoes.
Thompson and Morgan CEO Paul Hansford told the BBC that the company had been working on transplanting the two plants for more than 15 years. This is very difficult to achieve because the tomato and potato stalks must be the same thickness to get the graft, he added.
Similar plants have been created before by grafting, but never for commercial purposes. So far, they have always lacked one essential element - taste. However, they can say a lot about the tomato, but not that it lacks taste, says Hansford.
At the moment, Tomtato is enjoying great success. It costs 14.99 British pounds or about 24 dollars, reports the BBC.
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