Solanum postdocs

[Peter Stevens]

>Seems like something of a hot potato(e) to me....


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>This posting brings up a point that I have long wondered about.
>Lycopersicon (tomato genus) is increasingly being regarded as a
>subgenus or synonym of Solanum, since it apparently makes the latter
>paraphyletic.
>       If one were to take the alternate course, and split up the
>huge genus Solanum, about how many genera would result, and which
>genus would be sister to Lycopersicon?
>               ---- Thanks,
>                         Ken Kinman