and they can be grafted back together to produce both.
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You can graft but not interbreed them.
And when grafted the nicotine level of the tomatoes is within normal limits. Tomatoes normally have a little nicotine since they're nightshades
https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jsfa.3555
should have called tompato to match the simpsons. lol
Potato tomato
let’s call the whole thing off
So potatoes are evolved tomatoes? That's a nice little factoid.
That’s not really the case, and saying it would perpetuate the poor understanding of evolution that 95% of people already have.
Okay
I guess no one has truly invented a starch vegetable