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Modern tomatoes are very different from their wild ancestors – and we found missing links in their evolution

  • Written by Hamid Razifard, Postdoctoral Researcher in Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tomatoes' ancestors looked very different. Foxys Forest Manufacture/Shutterstock

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The Big Idea: The tomato’s path from wild plant to household staple is much more complex than researchers have long thought. For many years, scientists believed that humans domesticated the tomato in...

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