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Wild tomato plants on the Galapagos’s western islands are experiencing “reverse evolution” and reverting back to ancestral traits

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Wild tomato plants on the Galapagos’s western islands are experiencing “reverse evolution” and reverting back to ancestral traits

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Fruit & Fruit Trees@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months ago

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Something Strange Is Happening to Tomatoes Growing on the Galápagos Islands

www.smithsonianmag.com

Scientists say wild tomato plants on the archipelago's western islands are experiencing "reverse evolution" and reverting back to ancestral traits

study (Wayback Machine)

This is about Solanum cheesmaniae, not the domesticated Solanum lycopersicum or its wild ancestor Solanum pimpinellifolium.

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