The Tomato: Ripe, Juicy and Bursting With Genes

Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 16:44 in Biology & Nature

Plant geneticists who sequenced the tomato’s genome in hope of breeding better specimens found that it has 31,760 genes — about 7,000 more than a person.

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