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 back to ancestral traits ...

On the Galápagos Islands, wild tomatoes are producing molecules not seen since the Ice Age, reversing a genetic trajectory ...

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

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

Ripe fruits from the cultivated tomato (top right) and its 13 species of wild relatives (photo credit: Jacob Barnett) By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 12:02 Updated: SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 ...

A genome-wide identification of resistance gene analogs (RGAs) in cultivated tomato and four wild tomato relatives including S. habrochaites and S. galapagense, revealed 919 wild tomato-specific RGAs.

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

On the younger, black-rock islands of the Galápagos archipelago, wild-growing tomatoes are doing something peculiar. They’re shedding millions of years of evolution, reverting to a more primitive ...