Scientific Name	Solanum lycopersicum
Common Name	Lycopersicon esculentum var. esculentum; Solanum esculentum;
Taxonomy ID	4081
Lineage	cellular organisms > Viridiplantae > Streptophyta > Streptophytina > Embryophyta > Tracheophyta > Euphyllophyta > Spermatophyta > Magnoliophyta > Mesangiospermae > eudicotyledons > Gunneridae > Pentapetalae > asterids > lamiids > Solanales > Solanaceae > Solanoideae > Solaneae > Solanum > Lycopersicon
External Links	NCBI; EBI; JGI; PLAZA; Specialized Database
Representative Assembly	SL2.50	GCF_000188115.3	DNA GFF RNA Protein

Description:

Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as a tomato plant, which belongs to the nightshade family. The species originated in Central and South America, has been used for a number of firsts in molecular genetics of plants. The use of RFLP (restriction fragment length polymorphism) to generate a linkage map of a complete plant genome was done with tomato (Bernatzky and Tanksley. Genetics 1986; 112:887-898). Tomato was the organism where quantitative traits were resolved into Mendelian factors (Paterson et al.). The use of allelic variation of RAPD (random amplification of polymorphic DNA) to facilitate map-based walking to agronomically pertinent loci was first done in tomato (Wing et al. and Martin et al.). The creation of a high-density molecular linkage map and the use for comparative genomics were done with tomato and potato (Tanksley et al.). In February 2011 the chromosome pseudomolecules were deposited in NCBI.