Better Defense for Better Tomatoes
Read On Seed World As Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus infects tomato and pepper plants across the globe, seed companies are working on breeding a resistant tomato. Thousands of years ago, when farmers in South America began domesticating tomato’s wild ancestors, Solanum pimpinellifolium, they were working with weedy-looking plants that produced small albeit intensely flavored fruit. …