A new study has unveiled the genetic mechanism controlling citric acid content in jujube fruit, identifying a natural ...

Fruits and veggies used to look a lot different. Domestication has led to a lot of changes. Wild carrots were likely cultivated around the 10th century. They were purple or white, very thin ...

Researchers also think that humans helped increase the fruit’s growing range by spreading its seeds and pollen while ...

“The grapevine was probably the first fruit crop domesticated by ... Further, despite domestication, there still are wild grapes out there. Although those ancestral grapevines produce small ...

Their coats are sometimes spotted—piebald, in scientific terminology—while their wild ancestors' coats are solid. These and other traits, sometimes referred to as the domestication phenotype ...

We have explored which genetic or physical traits facilitated or constrained the domestication of wild species ... to generate bigger seeds or tastier fruits will take less time.

Researchers have proposed that some wild plant species possess certain attributes which make them more suitable for human cultivation than others. Researchers at the University of Southampton have ...

Peaches used to be small, cherry-like fruits with little flesh. They were first domesticated around 4,000 BC by the ancient Chinese and tasted earthy and slightly salty, "like a lentil," according ...

In fact, its predecessor, a wild grass called teosinte, barely resembles the sweet, crunchy vegetable we're now familiar with. And this was the case for many of our fruits and veggies. So how did ...