Nicotiana tomentosiformis explained

Nicotiana tomentosiformis is a perennial herbaceous plant. It is a wild species of tobacco native to the Yungas Valley region in the eastern piedmont of the Andes Mountains, primarily in Bolivia.

Recent genetic evidence suggests it is one of the parent species of the common domesticated tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), which was hybridized along with the species Nicotiana sylvestris, and possibly Nicotiana otophora^{[1] [2]}

External links

• Yukawa . M. . Tsudzuki . T.. Sugiura . M.. The chloroplast genome of Nicotiana sylvestris and Nicotiana tomentosiformis: complete sequencing confirms that the Nicotiana sylvestris progenitor is the maternal genome donor of Nicotiana tabacum . Molecular Genetics and Genomics . 2006 . 275 . 4 . 367–373 . 10.1007/s00438-005-0092-6 . 16435119 . 19760044 .

Notes and References

1. AFLP analysis of genetic polymorphism and evolutionary relationships among cultivated and wild Nicotiana species . Nan Ren and Michael P. Timko . Genome . August 2001 . 559–571 . 11550889 . 44 . 4 . 10.1139/gen-44-4-559 .
2. The origin of tobacco's T genome is traced to a particular lineage within Nicotiana tomentosiformis (Solanaceae) . Murad, L.. American Journal of Botany . August 2002 . 921–928 . 6 . 89 . 10.3732/ajb.89.6.921. etal . 21665691. free .