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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: The DNA Tricks That Gave Us 100 Different Kinds of Tomatoes
June 19, 2020
COLD SPRING HARBOR, New York, June 19 -- The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory issued the following news:

An expansive new analysis of genetic variation among tomatoes has uncovered 230,000 previously hidden large-scale differences in DNA between varieties. As tomato plants evolved, segments of DNA were deleted, duplicated, or rearranged. These genomic "structural variations" underpin the vast diversity among tomatoes, changing flavors, altering yield, and shaping other import . . .

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