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11-04-2003, 05:33 PM
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Tamacco is now real :)
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Rob Baur, a huge Simpsons fan, grafted a tomato plant to a tobacco plant, grew it, and tonight he has proof from the lab that it worked. "What we found was nicotine in the leaves". said scientist Ray Grimsbo. The plant grew off the tobacco roots and sucked up the nicotine, just like Tomacco on The Simpsons. The lab hasn't tested if the actual tomato has nicotine in it yet, but they say it probably does. "Generally in the fruit there is more material concentrated because that's what everything's going through to produce the fruit for the next generation. I would expect there would be more." And that would make the real life tomacco plant very poisonous. Rob Baur says he grew the tomacco plant just for fun, just to see if it would really work. But what's next for him? "I'll have to review my DVD's to see if there is more Simpsons science available."
| Too bad i hate to smoke, and i don't like tomatos
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11-04-2003, 05:46 PM
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They are of the same family (Nightshade-Solanaceae) so a grafting of the 2 would be no real great feat---
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11-04-2003, 06:17 PM
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Years and years ago, Berton Roueché had an article in the New Yorker's "Annals of Medicine" about a family in West Virginia (I think) that came down with a case of galloping hallucinations. Turned out that the father had grafted tomato tops onto Jimsonweed (Datura) roots to give the tomatoes frost-resistance. Worked, too... but there were unexpected side-effects....
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11-04-2003, 06:30 PM
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Yep---again same family of plant, majority of the the nightshade family is poisonous (like tobacco) remember, the tomato was considered deadly in North America a couple hundred years ago---that jimsonweed is some real mean stuff, ive seen it in action...
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11-04-2003, 07:19 PM
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So, what do you do...make yourself some killer sun dried tomatoes and toss them in the Potporrie<sp> container and go to town! 
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11-04-2003, 07:25 PM
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It's thought that a tomacco contains a lethal dose of nicotine. Talk about a nicotine fit. 
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11-04-2003, 08:24 PM
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