“They’re flavourless.” To address this problem, Zhang and his colleagues compared the genomes of cultivated tomato species (Solanum lycopersicum) with their much-sweeter wild counterpart ...

Today’s mass-produced tomatoes often grow to palm-sized proportions, but their naturally occurring ancestors were far smaller ...

Cultivated by Mesoamerican people and brought to Europe during the Columbian Exchange in the 16th century, tomatoes (Solanum ...

The tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as a tomato plant. The species originated in western South America and Central America. The Nahuatl word tomatl ...