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

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 10:50 in Biology & Nature

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, shapes and colors; and spicy jalapeño peppers are all a testament to human ingenuity. You may not consider food an invention, but nearly all foods we eat are the product of thousands of years of constant breeding and selection.

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