In an unexpected discovery, researchers have found that wild tomatoes in the Galápagos Islands seem to be evolving in reverse ...

Scientists say wild tomato plants on the archipelago's western islands are experiencing "reverse evolution" and reverting ...

Scientists discovered that the fruit is getting more toxic thanks to the return of an ancient defense mechanism.

The key change is an ancient defense system. Basically, these tomatoes are manufacturing a version of an alkaloid whose ...

Picture juicy red tomatoes on the vine. What do you see? Some tomato varieties have straight vines. Others are branched. The ...

New research uncovers reversal of evolution in island plants. On the younger, volcanic islands of the Galápagos, wild tomato ...

American scientists agree on the evolution of the entire tomato species, from tiny to hairy and awful-tasting to the large and sweet.

Wild tomato relatives Solanum habrochaites and S. galapagense are important germplasm donors in modern tomato breeding. Compared to the cultivated tomato, they display many desirable traits ...

Wild tomatoes on the Galápagos Islands are rewinding millions of years of evolution, according to a new study. Scientists at the University of California, Riverside found that these tomatoes ...