The announcement comes from researchers at Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, who carried out an assessment of carnivorous plants in honor of the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth only to discover many potential additions to the officially recognized list. Kew's Dr Mike Fay explains:

Widely recognised carnivorous plants number some 650 and we estimate that another 325 or so are probable additions – so an increase of about 50 per cent.

Amongst that 325 are species of tomatoes, ornamental tobacco plants, potatoes and a mustard plant commonly known as "shepherd's purse." They are believed to trap and eat insects by trapping their bodies until they die, decay, fall to the ground and are absorbed by the roots of the plant... which is almost as circuitous as it is creepy. But at least we now know the danger of the salad bar.

Attack of the killer tomatoes [Independent.co.uk]

The original 1978 movie spawned a franchise of sequels (culminating in Killer Tomatoes Eat France!, which may just be the greatest movie title ever), video games and Saturday morning cartoons. With Nichols' tongue firmly in cheek as he calls the original "the masterwork of a generation," the Hollywood Reporter story on the subject takes the news as seriously as it deserves:

No changes to the original plot have been revealed, but it still is expected to revolve around killer tomatoes.