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Skipping a few thousand years: Rapid domestication of the groundcherry using gene editing

  • Written by Nathan T. Reem, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University
These fresh vegetables and fruits are the result of hundreds to thousands of years of plant breeding and selection. Irina Sokolovskaya / Shutterstock.com

Shopping in your supermarket’s produce section is like strolling through a museum of humanity’s greatest inventions. Perfect ears of golden sweet corn; tomatoes of different sizes,...

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