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Tomatoes Once Tasted Like Cucumbers
This article by Bea Perks writing for Chemistry World magazine, titled Tomatoes Once Tasted Like Cucumbers, tells about the discovery of a class of volatile compounds (C9 aldehydes) associated with cucumber-like flavor in fruit of S. pennellii, but absent in cultivated tomato.