You say tomato, I say comparative transcriptomics.
Researchers in the U.S., Europe and Japan have produced the first comparison of
both the DNA sequences and which genes are active, or being transcribed,
between the domestic tomato and its wild cousins.
The results give insight into the genetic changes involved
in domestication and may help with future efforts to breed new traits into
tomato or other crops, said Julin Maloof, professor of plant biology in the
College of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Maloof
is senior author on the study, published June 26 in the journal Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences.