Tomatoes in the Galápagos 🍅🌿 are de-evolving. They found that plants on eastern islands produced the same alkaloids found in modern tomatoes. But on western islands, the tomatoes were churning out a different version with the molecular fingerprint of eggplant relatives 🍆 from millions of years ago.
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#GalapagosTomatoes #EvolutionaryBiology #BotanicalResearch #PlantGenetics #NatureScience
University of California, Riverside
Tomatoes in the Galápagos are de-evolving
Wild-growing tomatoes are on the black-rock islands of the Galápagos are doing something peculiar. They’re shedding millions of years of evolution, reverting to a primitive genetic state that resurrects ancient chemical defenses.
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