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Re: Tomato dehybridizing (Was: Garden layout question)

Bob Carter wrote in response to my query about tomato dehybridisation
(and I call my self a writer :-):

> > I'm intrigued, because all the volunteer tomato seedlings in my
> > garden nearly always turn out to be some sort of cherry tomato.
>
> Some varieties of tomatoes have long styles which stick out beyond the
> rest of the flower - some heirlooms and those with wild species in
> their ancestry have this trait.  They are much more subject to cross
> pollination by wind and insects.  Could that explain the preponderance
> of cherry-fruited offspring in your case?

It could be. My best guess was that the hybrids (probably mostly
store-bought fruit) had a cherry-fruited parent, in which the cherry
fruit was a dominant genetic characteristic. My grade 12 biology is
well and truly rusty, so this might be a contradictory statement.

Tony
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