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I was curious about what happened since the write-up ends abruptly before revealing the testing results. Wikisimpsons has a bit more info sourced from DVD comm

I was curious about what happened since the write-up ends abruptly before revealing the testing results. Wikisimpsons has a bit more info sourced from DVD commentary revealing that the tomacco had no nicotine in it: https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Tomacco#Behind_the_Laughter https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Tomacco#Behind_the_Laughter Wikidoc has even more detail but no sources: https://wikidoc.org/index.php/Tomacco https://wikidoc.org/index.php/Tomacco

Alex3917 3y ago
That's not entirely surprising. The whole point of grafting is to clone the plant you're taking scion wood from. Are there any examples where choice of rootstock can affect things like flavor? I've heard of rootstock affecting things like vigor, disease resistance, and cold hardiness, but never anything like taste or psychoactivity.
- manmal 3y ago
  Tobacco plants produce nicotine in their roots, so it would have been possible that the tomato received some.
  - Beldin 3y ago
    According to the wikidocs article, there was some in the leaves, but none found in the fruits.
veave 3y ago
There are sources here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Products_produced_from_The_Simpsons#Tomacco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Products_produced_from_The_Sim...
Tao3300 3y ago
I just figured the writer tasted it and perished.
silisili 3y ago
That doesn't sound reliable. Tomatoes all have some naturally occurring nicotine, I would be surprised one grafted to a tobacco plant somehow has...none?
gwern 3y ago
The Scientific American article in question: https://gwern.net/doc/biology/1959-robinson.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/biology/1959-robinson.pdf