The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum ) belongs to the nightshade family (Solanaceae) and is thus closely related to other edible plants such as the potato, the bell pepper or the eggplant.
The tomato originates from the Andean region in South America and was brought to Europe in the 16th century.
Its current genome assembly is ~828 Mb in size and contains 12 chromosomes. In agReg-SNPdb, we store 33,869 genes and 60,973,560 SNPs.
Statistics
(Last updated on 08.02.2022)
Number of chromosomes
12
Number of genes
33,869
Number of SNPs
60,973,560
Click on a chromosome to download the data stored in agReg-SNPdb for the complete chromosome