Roma tomato
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The Roma tomato or Roma is a plum tomato popularly used both for canning and producing tomato paste because of its slender and firm nature. It is commonly found in supermarkets in several countries.
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Roma tomato skin cells at 60x magnification
Roma tomato skin cells at 150x magnification
Roma tomato skin cells at 600x magnification
Fusarium wilt
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Fusarium wilt is a common vascular wilt fungal disease, exhibiting symptoms similar to Verticillium wilt. This disease has been investigated extensively since the early years of this century. The path
Roma tomato
…in seed catalogs as of 2007. It was developed by the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Beltsville, Maryland, in the 1950s as a fusarium wilt-resistant cultivar. While the Roma is an open-pollinated variety rather than a hybrid, it has been steadily improved to the point that most Roma tomato…
A tobacco plant suffering from Fusarium wilt