Solanum pimpinellifolium

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Solanaceae/Solanum

At a glance

Occurrence records1 385

Data sources14

Biological traits22

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections1

Sources14 archives

Databases and archives Solanum pimpinellifolium's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 385 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗

GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗

CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗

GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗

NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗

PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype

Tree of SexTree of Sex Consortiumgenome & karyotype↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

On this page7 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources22 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS · NPASS26 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF1 385 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

Genome at a glanceCCDB · TreeOfSex · GoaT≈833 Mbp

01Narrative

Solanum pimpinellifolium, commonly known as the currant tomato or pimp, is a wild species of tomatohttp://solgenomics.net/about/solanum_nomenclature.pl, Sol Genomics, New nomenclature for lycopersicon, Retrieved February 17, 2013, from Spooner, D.M., I.E. Peralta & S. Knapp. AFLP phylogeny of wild tomatoes [Solanum L. section Lycopersicon (Mill.) Wettst. subsection Lycopersicon ]. Taxon, in press. native to Ecuador and Peru but naturalized elsewhere, such as the Galápagos Islands. Its small fruits are edible, and it is commonly grown in gardens as an heirloom tomato,http://www.tomatocasual.com/2008/04/18/smallest-tomato-the-currant-tomato-and-other-small-wonders, Tomato Casual: Smallest Tomato: The Currant Tomato and other Small Wonders, Retrieved February 18, 2013. although it is considered to be wild rather than domesticated as is the commonly cultivated tomato species Solanum lycopersicum. Its genome was sequenced in 2012.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPGIFTTRY

Size & morphology3

Plant height1 m

Plant height max2 m

Plant height min0.15 m

Life cycle & reproduction6

Life formclimbing shrub

Life spanperennial|annual

⚠ sources differ — TRY: perennial|annual · GIFT: annual

Pollination modebiotic

Pollination syndromeinsect

Raunkiær life formtherophyte

Self fertilizationpresent

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment10

Aquaticterrestrial

Climatesubtropical

Climberself-supporting

Elevation max500 m

Elevation mean550 m

Elevation min0 m

Epiphyteterrestrial

Growth formherb

Habitat GIFTgarden

Woodinessnon-woody

Physiology & chemistry2

Nitrogen fixingnon_nitrogen_fixer

Photosynthetic pathwayC3

03Chemical composition26 compounds

Compounds documented for Solanum pimpinellifolium across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

🍽 Used in cooking

Compound class profile5 classes

Steroidal alkaloids6

Dipeptides3

Open-chain polyketides3

Cholestane steroids2

Simple indole alkaloids1

Documented compounds26 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
(1S,2R,4R,5'S,6S,7S,8S,9S,12S,13S,16S,18R)-5',7,9,13-tetramethylspiro[5-oxapentacyclo[10.8.0.02,9.04,8.013,18]icosane-6,2'-piperidine]-16-ol	present	LOTUS
(1S,2R,5S,7S,10S,11S,14S,15R,16S,17R,20S,22R,24S)-10,14,16,20-tetramethyl-23-oxa-18-azahexacyclo[12.11.0.02,11.05,10.015,24.017,22]pentacosane-7,22-diol	present	LOTUS
(1S,2R,5S,7S,10S,11S,14S,15R,16S,17S,20S,22R,24S)-10,14,16,20-tetramethyl-23-oxa-18-azahexacyclo[12.11.0.02,11.05,10.015,24.017,22]pentacosane-7,22-diol	present	LOTUS
(2E,4E,7S)-7-hydroxy-4-methyl-8-[(2S,6S)-2-[(2S,3S,4S,6R,7S,8S,9S,10S,11S)-4,6,8,10-tetrahydroxy-2-methoxy-13-[(2S,4R,6S)-4-methoxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]-3,7,9,11-tetramethyltridecyl]-3,6-dihydro-2H-pyran-6-yl]octa-2,4-dienoic acid	present	NPASS
(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-[(2S,3R,4S,5R,6R)-2-[(2R,3R,4R,5R,6R)-4,5-dihydroxy-6-[[(1S,2R,5R,7S,10R,11S,14S,15R,16S,17S,20S,22S,24S)-22-hydroxy-6,6,10,14,16,20-hexamethyl-23-oxa-18-azahexacyclo[12.11.0.02,11.05,10.015,24.017,22]pentacosan-7-yl]oxy]-2-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-3-yl]oxy-5-hydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)-4-[(2S,3R,4S,5R)-3,4,5-trihydroxyoxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-3-yl]oxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4,5-triol	present	LOTUS
(3R,3'R,13-cis)-beta,beta-Carotene-3,3'-diol	present	NPASS
1-[(3S,5S,8S,9R,10S,13S,14R)-3-hydroxy-10,13-dimethyl-2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,14,15-dodecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-17-yl]ethanone	present	LOTUS
5alpha-Tomatidan-3beta-ol	present	LOTUS
APTOZTHRCLKEEQ-KBQFWMGDSA-N	present	NPASS
CHRQWEAARHYJPF-DLQNNXQZSA-N	present	NPASS

05DNA & barcoding1 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Solanum pimpinellifolium has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★ITS

fungal barcode

06Genome at a glanceCCDB · TreeOfSex · GoaT · NCBI

The complete instruction manual Solanum pimpinellifolium carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.

Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is

Genome size≈833 190 614 bp assembly estimate

Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).

BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb

FUNGUS0.04 Gb

INSECT0.25 Gb

THIS GENOME Solanum pimpinellifolium0.83 Gb

HUMAN3.2 Gb

WHEAT17 Gb

FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb

Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged

2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.

Chromosomes2n = 24 n = 12

Ploidydiploid inferred

Chromosome records24–242n range24median24mode10records

Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references

2n 2410×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-indian_vol1 · CCDB · book-fedorov +1

CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Strelnikova, S. P. 1999. Karyological study of tomatoes. Citologija 41(12): 1084–1085.

CCDB · book-indian_vol1 — Humphrey, L.M. 1932, 1937 ; Lindstrom E. W. & Humphrey, L.M 1933; Luckwill, L.C. 1943; Rick, C.M. 1956a; Upadhya, M.D. & Majid, R. 1964

CCDB · book-fedorov — Humphrey 1932c, 1937

CCDB · book-fedorov — Luckwill 1943

CCDB · book-fedorov — Rick 1956a

CCDB · book-fedorov — Upadhya, Majid 1964

CCDB · book-fedorov — Lindstrom, Humphrey. 1933

CCDB · kew — Bennett MD, Smith JB. 1976. Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 274: 227-274.

n 126×CCDB · solan · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 · CCDB · Cave1956 +2

CCDB · solan

CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 — Vasudevan 1975

CCDB · Cave1956 — Rick

CCDB · Cave1956supp — Gottschalk 1954a

TreeOfSex · plant — peralta2008|solsource ↗

Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources

diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale

PloiDB · genus-scale — chromEvol; reliability=1.000 ↗

Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers

Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.

Assembly levelChromosome

Completeness98.4% BUSCO

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type1 385 records

Wild obs. + sensor350

Museum / vouchered326

Cultivated / captive156

Other553

Origin

Native394

Introduced3

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO2 628 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy93% within 1 km

≤100 m 218≤1 km 39≤10 km 18

275 georeferenced · 75 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor350

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy74% within 1 km

≤100 m 14≤1 km 3≤10 km 6

23 georeferenced · 303 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence326

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

Coordinate accuracy0% within 1 km

≤10 km 38>10 km 61

99 georeferenced · 57 without coordinates

Open the mapnot free-living156

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions21 of 40 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
South Kensington, GB	79
Davis, US	57
Bronx, US	30
Puerto Ayora, EC	27
Saint Louis, US	23
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record	22
Edinburgh, GB	7
Loja, EC	7
Stockholm, SE	6
Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record	5
Kew, GB	4
Riverside, US	4
Wlocation not on record	4
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record	3
BRNUlocation not on record	3
Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record	3
Chicago, US	3
Mount Annan, AU	3
John T. Waterhouse Herbariumlocation not on record	2
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record	2
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record	2
LDlocation not on record	2
CASlocation not on record	2
Aarhus, DK	2
Columbia, US	1
Tampa, US	1
Cusco, PE	1
GJOlocation not on record	1
UTPLlocation not on record	1
UFRRJlocation not on record	1
QCNElocation not on record	1
Station d'Ecologie de Lamtolocation not on record	1
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Nortelocation not on record	1
Pullman, US	1
Fort Worth, US	1
Quito, EC	1
Río Palenque Science Centerlocation not on record	1
Paris, FR	1
Miami, US	1
UNEMATlocation not on record	1

40 institutions · 318 of 326 vouchered records shown · 8 without an institution code

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Solanum pimpinellifolium was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found1

Studies independent surveys1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 countries0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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Solanum pimpinellifolium

At a glance

Sources14 archives

Size & morphology3

Life cycle & reproduction6

Diet & foraging1

Habitat & environment10

Physiology & chemistry2

Compound class profile5 classes

Documented compounds26 total

At a glance

Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is

Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged

Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers

Record type1 385 records

Origin

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions21 of 40 geolocated

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

Signal

Where its DNA was found

How strong is each trace?

Record type1 385 records