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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506060/
This talks about how consuming tomatoes reduces indicence of tumors from a certain kind of skin cancer, or some such. They only tested red and tangerine tomatoes (tangerine is a color gene for one of the orange kinds of tomatoes, which is high in tetra-cis lycopene; the other kind of orange tomato is high in beta carotene).
It says red tomatoes were more effective than controls, but it says that tangerine tomatoes caused significantly more lycopene to be absorbed into the skin than red tomatoes. Here's what it says about red tomatoes:
"Tumor number was significantly lower in male mice consuming red tomato diets (1.73 ± 0.50, P = 0.015) or pooled tomato diets (2.03 ± 0.45, P = 0.017) compared to controls (4.04 ± 0.65)."
It doesn't mention how the results varied between red and tangerine tomatoes, with regard to tumors, but it did mention the fact that tangerine tomatoes caused more lycopene to be accumulated in the skin.
It did not directly say how tangerine tomatoes compared to controls. However, it inferred that they had tumor-suppressive properties (but not to what degree).
Some tomatoes high in tetra-cis lycopene include Olga's Yellow Chicken Egg, and Moonglow, among others.
This talks about how consuming tomatoes reduces indicence of tumors from a certain kind of skin cancer, or some such. They only tested red and tangerine tomatoes (tangerine is a color gene for one of the orange kinds of tomatoes, which is high in tetra-cis lycopene; the other kind of orange tomato is high in beta carotene).
It says red tomatoes were more effective than controls, but it says that tangerine tomatoes caused significantly more lycopene to be absorbed into the skin than red tomatoes. Here's what it says about red tomatoes:
"Tumor number was significantly lower in male mice consuming red tomato diets (1.73 ± 0.50, P = 0.015) or pooled tomato diets (2.03 ± 0.45, P = 0.017) compared to controls (4.04 ± 0.65)."
It doesn't mention how the results varied between red and tangerine tomatoes, with regard to tumors, but it did mention the fact that tangerine tomatoes caused more lycopene to be accumulated in the skin.
It did not directly say how tangerine tomatoes compared to controls. However, it inferred that they had tumor-suppressive properties (but not to what degree).
Some tomatoes high in tetra-cis lycopene include Olga's Yellow Chicken Egg, and Moonglow, among others.
Cilantrovaya_A F2 is the same plant as MKX_B. See the MKX_ project for earlier information about MKX_B:
https://www.growspice.com/MKX-tomato-project-td3636.html
This project was named due to the first fruit of Cilantrovaya_A having a delayed aftertaste of fresh cilantro, and having Medovaya Kaplya as an ancestor (from which it gets its color and leaf type). Also, the honey-like aftertaste (medovaya means honey in Russian), which is more instant (with hints of fruitiness at the same time).
The first fruit began to color 54 days from the transplant (but it needed at least a couple more days to ripen). I only waited one day, and thus it was underripe when I ate it (which was primarily noticeable by the taste of the gel around the seeds). It had 80 seeds. The seeds were larger in size than one might expect. I swallowed 20 accidentally while removing the gel sacks in my mouth (which I did in order to taste them).
I'm about to dry the remaining 60 seeds, which I've zapped in water with a Z4EX (15+ minutes per frequency, as usual, with copper pipes; I used a fresh 9v battery, as I had been using the old one for a while now).
https://www.growspice.com/MKX-tomato-project-td3636.html
This project was named due to the first fruit of Cilantrovaya_A having a delayed aftertaste of fresh cilantro, and having Medovaya Kaplya as an ancestor (from which it gets its color and leaf type). Also, the honey-like aftertaste (medovaya means honey in Russian), which is more instant (with hints of fruitiness at the same time).
The first fruit began to color 54 days from the transplant (but it needed at least a couple more days to ripen). I only waited one day, and thus it was underripe when I ate it (which was primarily noticeable by the taste of the gel around the seeds). It had 80 seeds. The seeds were larger in size than one might expect. I swallowed 20 accidentally while removing the gel sacks in my mouth (which I did in order to taste them).
I'm about to dry the remaining 60 seeds, which I've zapped in water with a Z4EX (15+ minutes per frequency, as usual, with copper pipes; I used a fresh 9v battery, as I had been using the old one for a while now).
I've long wondered whether wonderberries were polyploids or not, and it turns out, they are! Well, according to a couple sources on the Internet, anyway. I don't know if they're talking about research done on actual wonderberries sold as wonderberries or on Solanum retroflexum from Africa, or on the original wonderberry samples that we actually know for sure are wonderberries as grown by Luther Burbank, however. If they didn't test both, they should. If you can test them, I recommend testing the ones sold at Trade Winds Fruit, the ones at Baker Creek, and wherever else, as well as Solanum retroflexum from Africa.
I wonder if it's an allopolyploid.
I'm curious what a diploid wonderberry would be like, or an octoploid. Would the diploid have bigger fruit? Diploid tomatoes have bigger fruit than tetraploid tomatoes.
I wonder if it's an allopolyploid.
I'm curious what a diploid wonderberry would be like, or an octoploid. Would the diploid have bigger fruit? Diploid tomatoes have bigger fruit than tetraploid tomatoes.
https://biologydictionary.net/gametophyte/
I found the above to be very insightful. Beware of the ads, though; as in, there are a lot of them (but if you search for articles on your typical search engine, it's probably something you're used to).
Apparently, some plants produce gametes some generations and spores other generations (and each of the two generations takes a different form, with one being haploid and the other diploid). Cool stuff. This includes at least pine trees, mosses, ferns, and hornwort (according to what the article says).
I found the above to be very insightful. Beware of the ads, though; as in, there are a lot of them (but if you search for articles on your typical search engine, it's probably something you're used to).
Apparently, some plants produce gametes some generations and spores other generations (and each of the two generations takes a different form, with one being haploid and the other diploid). Cool stuff. This includes at least pine trees, mosses, ferns, and hornwort (according to what the article says).
See also this link:
https://www.tomatojunction.com/post73894.html#p73894
Wuler_ is a tomato project of mine (see my ID system if you want to make sense of how I name plants within each project), to deal with segregations of and/or crosses with the unstable B.S.X. tomato seeds I received in 2019 (which have proven pretty cool). This is to distinguish it from the other B.S.X. tomatoes floating around that don't quite match mine in description, and to help me identify and talk about each plant better (without having to explain stuff that might be).
Wuler_ doesn't have any previous meaning to this tomato. It's a random name composed of letters that exist in the names of some of its possible ancestors. Its likely possible ancestors (as far as I know) include these:
- Brandywine Sudduth
- Black Cherry
- Karma Pink
- Any of one of four Brandy Boy cross F3s I grew in 2020 (three tart ones and one near-multiflora one).
My initial seed was labeled B.S.X. and came from HudsonValley of Tomatoville, in 2019. Here's the information I wrote in my records about it:
B.S.X.—Brandywine Sudduth’s x Black Cherry? F4, from HudsonValley of Tomatoville, received 16 Nov 2019; pink, small beefsteak, PL; 2019
I grew one plant in 2020. The fruits did not match the description I've read about for B.S.X., but were actually large and black instead of small and pink. It fruited heavily in July (not much beyond that; maybe in early August, too), and I was super impressed by how many large fruits we had early on in the season. The taste was just okay (but not offputting). The plant was potato leaf. I saved seeds and grew three plants in 2021 (because it was so prolific with such large fruit, and nice heat-tolerance and cold-tolerance early on).
In 2021, however, the fruits turned out to be pink, instead of black. They were somewhat smaller, but still not small (with variation in size among the plants). The taste was excellent. They fruited heavily in July/August again, in the heat (not much beyond that again). All three plants were potato leaf, again.
I suspect an additional cross happened in my garden in 2020 with a pink PL father (and/or in HudsonValley's garden with a black PL father), considering it was supposed to be pink in 2020, but was black in 2020, and then turned out to be pink again in 2021 (I'm not sure that color can change back and forth like that instead of just back or just forth). Possible crosses from my garden in 2020 were the aforementioned Brandy Boy cross F3s and Karma Pink. Anyway, even if it's not an additional cross, it's still a segregation from the initial B.S.X.'s description. So, I figure I better give it it's own project name instead of calling it BSX, or a BSX cross all the time. So, Wuler_ it is (that's a project name--not an actual variety name).
Anyway, I had three volunteers in my garden this year (I didn't save seeds last year, because we ate them all and it didn't grow any more by the time I wanted to save seeds--so, I was pretty glad that it volunteered). I'm confident they're from this line, based on their appearance, early fruiting, fast plant growth, heat-tolerance, how they're potato-leaf, and such. If it were the other possible PL plant, they wouldn't be growing and fruiting this fast, I'm sure.
Okay, so, I'm calling the plant from 2020 Wuler_A, the plants from 2021 (from east to west) Wuler_B, Wuler_B0, and Wuler_B1. And because I don't know which of those the volunteers came from, I'm just going to call them Wuler_C (was v22_A5), Wuler_C0 (was v22_A6), and Wuler_C1 (was v22_A7). If I grow more seeds from the initial BSX packet, I'll call them Wuler_A0, Wuler_A1 and so on, unless they happen to match BSX's description in being pink (then I'll know those probably really are BSX). Again, Wuler_ is a project name to help me keep track of stuff (it's not an official variety name). The individual names are plant names within the project.
You've probably seen some of the fruit already if you looked at pictures of my fruit last year (look for a stainless steel bowl of miscellaneous fruits, and the big-ish pink beefsteaks are probably from Wuler_B1).
Wuler_ tomatoes historically grow like indeterminates, but fruit like prolific determinates. They've all been potato-leaf.
Wuler_C0 germinated (as a volunteer) on June 4th and set fruit on July 10th or 11th. I think that's 58 days. It has multiple fruits already. Let's see how long they take to ripen, and how big they get! :) Wuler_C and C1 have fruit, too, and bigger plants (they're somewhat older). I have them in cages, this year (for the first time in the Wuler_ project). I was getting tired of getting them mixed up with other plants later in the season after they were done setting fruit (so, this should help to keep them separate).
Here are pictures of this year's plant, today:
Wuler_C:
Wuler_C0:
Wuler_C1:
https://www.tomatojunction.com/post73894.html#p73894
Wuler_ is a tomato project of mine (see my ID system if you want to make sense of how I name plants within each project), to deal with segregations of and/or crosses with the unstable B.S.X. tomato seeds I received in 2019 (which have proven pretty cool). This is to distinguish it from the other B.S.X. tomatoes floating around that don't quite match mine in description, and to help me identify and talk about each plant better (without having to explain stuff that might be).
Wuler_ doesn't have any previous meaning to this tomato. It's a random name composed of letters that exist in the names of some of its possible ancestors. Its likely possible ancestors (as far as I know) include these:
- Brandywine Sudduth
- Black Cherry
- Karma Pink
- Any of one of four Brandy Boy cross F3s I grew in 2020 (three tart ones and one near-multiflora one).
My initial seed was labeled B.S.X. and came from HudsonValley of Tomatoville, in 2019. Here's the information I wrote in my records about it:
B.S.X.—Brandywine Sudduth’s x Black Cherry? F4, from HudsonValley of Tomatoville, received 16 Nov 2019; pink, small beefsteak, PL; 2019
I grew one plant in 2020. The fruits did not match the description I've read about for B.S.X., but were actually large and black instead of small and pink. It fruited heavily in July (not much beyond that; maybe in early August, too), and I was super impressed by how many large fruits we had early on in the season. The taste was just okay (but not offputting). The plant was potato leaf. I saved seeds and grew three plants in 2021 (because it was so prolific with such large fruit, and nice heat-tolerance and cold-tolerance early on).
In 2021, however, the fruits turned out to be pink, instead of black. They were somewhat smaller, but still not small (with variation in size among the plants). The taste was excellent. They fruited heavily in July/August again, in the heat (not much beyond that again). All three plants were potato leaf, again.
I suspect an additional cross happened in my garden in 2020 with a pink PL father (and/or in HudsonValley's garden with a black PL father), considering it was supposed to be pink in 2020, but was black in 2020, and then turned out to be pink again in 2021 (I'm not sure that color can change back and forth like that instead of just back or just forth). Possible crosses from my garden in 2020 were the aforementioned Brandy Boy cross F3s and Karma Pink. Anyway, even if it's not an additional cross, it's still a segregation from the initial B.S.X.'s description. So, I figure I better give it it's own project name instead of calling it BSX, or a BSX cross all the time. So, Wuler_ it is (that's a project name--not an actual variety name).
Anyway, I had three volunteers in my garden this year (I didn't save seeds last year, because we ate them all and it didn't grow any more by the time I wanted to save seeds--so, I was pretty glad that it volunteered). I'm confident they're from this line, based on their appearance, early fruiting, fast plant growth, heat-tolerance, how they're potato-leaf, and such. If it were the other possible PL plant, they wouldn't be growing and fruiting this fast, I'm sure.
Okay, so, I'm calling the plant from 2020 Wuler_A, the plants from 2021 (from east to west) Wuler_B, Wuler_B0, and Wuler_B1. And because I don't know which of those the volunteers came from, I'm just going to call them Wuler_C (was v22_A5), Wuler_C0 (was v22_A6), and Wuler_C1 (was v22_A7). If I grow more seeds from the initial BSX packet, I'll call them Wuler_A0, Wuler_A1 and so on, unless they happen to match BSX's description in being pink (then I'll know those probably really are BSX). Again, Wuler_ is a project name to help me keep track of stuff (it's not an official variety name). The individual names are plant names within the project.
You've probably seen some of the fruit already if you looked at pictures of my fruit last year (look for a stainless steel bowl of miscellaneous fruits, and the big-ish pink beefsteaks are probably from Wuler_B1).
Wuler_ tomatoes historically grow like indeterminates, but fruit like prolific determinates. They've all been potato-leaf.
Wuler_C0 germinated (as a volunteer) on June 4th and set fruit on July 10th or 11th. I think that's 58 days. It has multiple fruits already. Let's see how long they take to ripen, and how big they get! :) Wuler_C and C1 have fruit, too, and bigger plants (they're somewhat older). I have them in cages, this year (for the first time in the Wuler_ project). I was getting tired of getting them mixed up with other plants later in the season after they were done setting fruit (so, this should help to keep them separate).
Here are pictures of this year's plant, today:
Wuler_C:
Wuler_C0:
Wuler_C1:
See the answer that mentions it here:
https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/83502/offline-music-player-for-androids-without-ads/83513#83513
It's the best command-line media player I've found, so far.
https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/83502/offline-music-player-for-androids-without-ads/83513#83513
It's the best command-line media player I've found, so far.
Wuler_ is a tomato project of mine, to deal with segregations of and/or crosses with the unstable B.S.X. tomato seeds I received in 2019 (which have proven pretty cool). This is to distinguish it from the other B.S.X. tomatoes floating around that don't quite match mine in description, and to help me identify and talk about each plant better (without having to explain stuff that might be).
Wuler_ doesn't have any previous meaning to this tomato. It's a random name composed of letters that exist in the names of some of its possible ancestors. Its likely possible ancestors (as far as I know) include these:
- Brandywine Sudduth
- Black Cherry
- Karma Pink
- Any of one of four Brandy Boy cross F3s I grew in 2020 (three tart ones and one near-multiflora one).
My initial seed was labeled B.S.X. and came from HudsonValley of Tomatoville, in 2019. Here's the information I wrote in my records about it:
B.S.X.—Brandywine Suddeth’s x Black Cherry? F4, from HudsonValley of Tomatoville, received 16 Nov 2019; pink, small beefsteak, PL; 2019
I grew one plant in 2020. The fruits did not match the description I've read about for B.S.X., but were actually large and black instead of small and pink. It fruited heavily in July (not much beyond that; maybe in early August, too), and I was super impressed by how many large fruits we had early on in the season. The taste was just okay (but not offputting). The plant was potato leaf. I saved seeds and grew three plants in 2021 (because it was so prolific with such large fruit, and nice heat-tolerance and cold-tolerance early on).
In 2021, however, the fruits turned out to be pink, instead of black. They were somewhat smaller, but still not small (with variation in size among the plants). The taste was excellent. They fruited heavily in July again, in the heat (not much beyond that again). All three plants were potato leaf, again.
I suspect an additional cross happened in my garden in 2020 with a pink PL father (and/or in HudsonValley's garden with a black PL father), considering it was supposed to be pink in 2020, but was black in 2020, and then turned out to be pink again in 2021 (I'm not sure that color can change back and forth like that instead of just back or just forth). Possible crosses from my garden in 2020 were the aforementioned Brandy Boy cross F3s and Karma Pink. Anyway, even if it's not an additional cross, it's still a segregation from the initial B.S.X.'s description. So, I figure I better give it it's own project name instead of calling it BSX, or a BSX cross all the time. So, Wuler_ it is (that's a project name--not an actual variety name).
Anyway, I had three volunteers in my garden this year (I didn't save seeds last year, because we ate them all and it didn't grow any more by the time I wanted to save seeds--so, I was pretty glad that it volunteered). I'm confident they're from this line, based on their appearance, early fruiting, fast plant growth, heat-tolerance, how they're potato-leaf, and such. If it were the other possible PL plant, they wouldn't be growing and fruiting this fast, I'm sure.
Okay, so, I'm calling the plant from 2020 Wuler_A, the plants from 2021 (from east to west) Wuler_B, Wuler_B0, and Wuler_B1. And because I don't know which of those the volunteers came from, I'm just going to call them Wuler_C (was v22_A5), Wuler_C0 (was v22_A6), and Wuler_C1 (was v22_A7). If I grow more seeds from the initial BSX packet, I'll call them Wuler_A0, Wuler_A1 and so on, unless they happen to match BSX's description in being pink (then I'll know those probably really are BSX). Again, Wuler_ is a project name to help me keep track of stuff (it's not an official variety name). The individual names are plant names within the project.
Wuler_ tomatoes grow like indeterminates, but they fruit like prolific determinates. They've all been potato leaf.
Wuler_ doesn't have any previous meaning to this tomato. It's a random name composed of letters that exist in the names of some of its possible ancestors. Its likely possible ancestors (as far as I know) include these:
- Brandywine Sudduth
- Black Cherry
- Karma Pink
- Any of one of four Brandy Boy cross F3s I grew in 2020 (three tart ones and one near-multiflora one).
My initial seed was labeled B.S.X. and came from HudsonValley of Tomatoville, in 2019. Here's the information I wrote in my records about it:
B.S.X.—Brandywine Suddeth’s x Black Cherry? F4, from HudsonValley of Tomatoville, received 16 Nov 2019; pink, small beefsteak, PL; 2019
I grew one plant in 2020. The fruits did not match the description I've read about for B.S.X., but were actually large and black instead of small and pink. It fruited heavily in July (not much beyond that; maybe in early August, too), and I was super impressed by how many large fruits we had early on in the season. The taste was just okay (but not offputting). The plant was potato leaf. I saved seeds and grew three plants in 2021 (because it was so prolific with such large fruit, and nice heat-tolerance and cold-tolerance early on).
In 2021, however, the fruits turned out to be pink, instead of black. They were somewhat smaller, but still not small (with variation in size among the plants). The taste was excellent. They fruited heavily in July again, in the heat (not much beyond that again). All three plants were potato leaf, again.
I suspect an additional cross happened in my garden in 2020 with a pink PL father (and/or in HudsonValley's garden with a black PL father), considering it was supposed to be pink in 2020, but was black in 2020, and then turned out to be pink again in 2021 (I'm not sure that color can change back and forth like that instead of just back or just forth). Possible crosses from my garden in 2020 were the aforementioned Brandy Boy cross F3s and Karma Pink. Anyway, even if it's not an additional cross, it's still a segregation from the initial B.S.X.'s description. So, I figure I better give it it's own project name instead of calling it BSX, or a BSX cross all the time. So, Wuler_ it is (that's a project name--not an actual variety name).
Anyway, I had three volunteers in my garden this year (I didn't save seeds last year, because we ate them all and it didn't grow any more by the time I wanted to save seeds--so, I was pretty glad that it volunteered). I'm confident they're from this line, based on their appearance, early fruiting, fast plant growth, heat-tolerance, how they're potato-leaf, and such. If it were the other possible PL plant, they wouldn't be growing and fruiting this fast, I'm sure.
Okay, so, I'm calling the plant from 2020 Wuler_A, the plants from 2021 (from east to west) Wuler_B, Wuler_B0, and Wuler_B1. And because I don't know which of those the volunteers came from, I'm just going to call them Wuler_C (was v22_A5), Wuler_C0 (was v22_A6), and Wuler_C1 (was v22_A7). If I grow more seeds from the initial BSX packet, I'll call them Wuler_A0, Wuler_A1 and so on, unless they happen to match BSX's description in being pink (then I'll know those probably really are BSX). Again, Wuler_ is a project name to help me keep track of stuff (it's not an official variety name). The individual names are plant names within the project.
Wuler_ tomatoes grow like indeterminates, but they fruit like prolific determinates. They've all been potato leaf.
I have mixed feelings about this article linked at the end of this post. On the one hand, it's great, because it has the potential to produce a great product. On the other hand, the implication seems to be that they're infecting chickens with a live COVID virus (they use the word 'infect', rather than immunize, which is why I infer that). The problem with this is that if the virus is live, it could adapt within chickens to spread easily to other chickens (especially if this is done a lot), and then breed new forms of COVID-19 (which may or may not spread back to humans, and which might affect the chicken/fowl industries), making the pandemic worse.
The solution would seem to be to develop a non-live COVID-19 vaccine for chickens, innoculate the chickens, and then use their eggs. They might as well vaccinate the chickens for everything else while they're at it.
Even if all the chickens are isolated and infected at the same time, I'm still uneasy about that, considering COVID-19 can linger in the gut for a long time after recovery, if what I've heard is correct.
Plus, with a live virus, isn't there a risk of infecting humans with the eggs? Birds don't usually have COVID-19, so I don't know that anyone has studied this.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/04/chicken-egg-antibody.html
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egg_
The solution would seem to be to develop a non-live COVID-19 vaccine for chickens, innoculate the chickens, and then use their eggs. They might as well vaccinate the chickens for everything else while they're at it.
Even if all the chickens are isolated and infected at the same time, I'm still uneasy about that, considering COVID-19 can linger in the gut for a long time after recovery, if what I've heard is correct.
Plus, with a live virus, isn't there a risk of infecting humans with the eggs? Birds don't usually have COVID-19, so I don't know that anyone has studied this.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/04/chicken-egg-antibody.html
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