Fertilizing your trees will go a long way toward increasing fruit size and yield.
Tomatoes and eggplants might soon look and taste very different, thanks to a major scientific breakthrough. A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University has uncovered the genes that help decide ...
When it comes to fast-growing apple trees, smaller is better; dwarf varieties can begin fruiting two to three years after ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Fruits of Solanum plants, a group in the nightshade family, are incredibly diverse, ranging from sizable red tomatoes and purple eggplants to the poisonous green berries on ...
Domesticated tomatoes can be up to 1000 times larger than their wild relatives. How did they get so big? In general, domesticated food plants have larger fruits, heads of grain, tubers, etc, because ...
A surprising genetic twist shows that boosting a seemingly ordinary “housekeeping” gene can dramatically improve fruit ...
In general, domesticated food plants have larger fruits, heads of grain, tubers, etc, because this is one of the characteristics that early hunter-gatherers chose when foraging for food. In addition ...