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Originally Posted by nbardo
When most people say wild tomato I think they mean growing without any human intervention. The ones found outside of south and central america are probably all still descended from domesticated solanum lycopersicum. So they are more like feral than wild but i think thats what carolyn means by landraces, populations that are self sustaining and adapted to a location.
Truly wild undomesticated species are from south and central america used in breeding for things like disease resistance, but most of them are hard to cross with donesticated tomato. Those are solanum pimpinellifolium, s peruvianum, s chilense, s galapagense, and a handful of others.
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And if you don't have Keith Mueller's website you should
http://www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/tomato.htm
For MUCH more information about some of what you posted above.
Start by clicking on TOMATO at the top of the link above.
I have spent many hours at his site since there's so much info there.And once you see all of his site,including the references to other sites such as the Charles Rick data base site at UC Davis in CA I know you'll agree.
Carolyn