Using the examples of tomato and Arabidopsis thaliana plants, they can see that the ... “You can’t go back to the common ancestor because they don’t exist anymore. So it’s hard to say ...

However, it can be difficult to achieve both sweetness and size in tomato plants. But a new study suggests ... 10–100 times larger than their wild ancestor, but this has come at the expense ...

“Two years ago we only had one genome and now we have more than 300!” said Harry Klee, a horticultural scientist at the University of Florida who studies tomatoes and was not involved in the current ...

Here are four plant-based foods I have on my weekly grocery ... Through genetic detective work, scientists have identified missing links in the tomato’s evolution from a wild blueberry-sized ...