New Cultivated Tomato and Wild Plant (IMAGE)

University of Münster

New Cultivated Tomato and Wild Plant

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The new cultivated tomato (right) has a variety of domestication features which distinguish it from the wild plant (left). The details (clockwise): It produces more flowers and therefore bears more fruit, the fruit is larger and oval in shape instead of round. The cultivated tomato contains more lycopene, which is noticeable through a deeper red colouring of the juice, and the plant has a more compact growth.

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Agustin Zsögön/<i>Nature Biotechnology</i>

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