Evolution of fruit size in tomato
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 12:14
in Biology & Nature
Domesticated tomatoes can be up to 1000 times larger than their wild relatives. How did they get so big? In general, domesticated food plants have larger fruits, heads of grain, tubers, etc., because this is one of the characteristics that early hunter-gatherers chose when foraging for food...
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