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Italian Cooks Up Eggplant and Tomato Tree

Hardy hybrid said to yield better produce than nature intended

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 11, 2008 2:12 PM CDT

(Newser) – A Sicilian amateur botanist claims to have developed a plant hybrid that functions as the world’s first tomato/eggplant tree, ANSA reports. Taking advantage of the fact that all three share the same genus, Giuseppe Marino grafted tomato and eggplant tissue onto a devil’s...   Read full story »

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