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

  • Written by Nathan T. Reem, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University
Skipping a few thousand years: Rapid domestication of the groundcherry using gene editingThese fresh vegetables and fruits are the result of hundreds to thousands of years of plant breeding and selection. Irina Sokolovskaya / Shutterstock.com

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,...

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