Jeffdogg
Well-Known Member
That would make the ultimate plant!!! Any Botanists out there? If so could taking those traits and kinda "splicing" it into a strain even be possible?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6727709/Tomatoes-can-eat-insects.html
Very Interesting info
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6727709/Tomatoes-can-eat-insects.html
Very Interesting info
Tomatoes can 'eat' insects
Garden vegetables such as tomatoes and potatoes have been found to be deadly killers on a par with Venus fly traps, according to research.
Botanists have discovered for the first time that the plants are carnivorous predators who kill insects in order to "self-fertilise" themselves.
New research shows that they capture and kill small insects with sticky hairs on their stems and then absorb nutrients through their roots when the animals decay and fall to the ground.
It is thought that the technique was developed in the wild in order to supplement the nutrients in poor quality soil – but even domestic varieties grown in your vegetable patch retain the ability.