Modern tomatoes are very different from their wild ancestors – and we found missing links in their evolution
- Written by Hamid Razifard, Postdoctoral Researcher in Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tomatoes' ancestors looked very different. Foxys Forest Manufacture/ShutterstockThe Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work.
The Big Idea: The tomato’s path from wild plant to household staple is much more complex than researchers have long thought. For many years, scientists believed that humans domesticated the tomato in...