tomato plant
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tomato
noun[C or U]
uk/təˈmɑː.təʊ/us/təˈmeɪ.t̬oʊ/
a round, red fruit with a lot of seeds, eaten cooked or uncooked as a vegetable, for example in salads ...
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plant
noun
uk/plɑːnt/us/plænt/
a living thing that grows in earth, in water, or on other plants, usually has a stem, leaves, roots, and flowers, and ...
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(Definition oftomatoandplantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Some phenotypes are repeated several times by the same individual, such as the size and weight of tomatoes from the same panicle of atomatoplant.
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For example, one could examine some characteristic of tomato fruits as a multiple measurement of atomatoplant.
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For example, a spider mite could stay on onetomatoplantuntil the resource is entirely depleted.
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Thetomatoplantrepels the asparagus beetle, as do several other common companion plants of tomatoes.
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It is a big pathogen to thetomatoplant.
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He eventually developed over seventeen different varieties of thetomatoplant.
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Silverleaf whiteflies are actually more attracted to the squash crop than they are to thetomatoplant.
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Damage caused on tomato plants is both direct and indirect.
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This plant also requires water but is drought tolerant, and mulching can help to ensure an even supply of moisture to thetomatoplant.
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By 1960, the store, blacksmith shop, grist mill, post office,tomatoplantand school were all shuttered.
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However, tomato plants had highly elongated and complex canopies that could not be easily measured from either a nadir or horizontal orientation.
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Water and nutrient uptake of grafted tomato plants grown under saline conditions.
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Within the mixed cages more whiteflies moved to new leaves on cucumber and bean compared to tomato plants.
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The screens were placed, before planting, over a row of field tomato plants in a randomized block design with six replicates per material.
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The effect of artificial defoliation on the yield of tomato plants and its relevance to pest damage.
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In addition, whiteflies moved more frequently between tomato plants and survival appeared to be lower on tomato compared to the other crops.
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These findings support the general hypothesis for the existence of similarities among the resistance mechanisms to whiteflies, aphids and nematodes in commercial tomato plants.
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Thus, hyperspectral data could be collected of symptomatic tissues independent of the complex plant canopies that were exhibited by the tomato plants.
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It so happened that the tomato plants were particularly susceptible to this substance.
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