Red tomatoes thanks to meteorite

Friday, June 8, 2012 - 07:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(Phys.org) -- The meteorite which crashed into the Earth 60 to 70 million years ago, wiping out dinosaurs, had probably given us nice red tomatoes as well. This can be deduced from a tomato genome analysis, published on 30 May in Nature.

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