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• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Does this mean the original tomato varieties from South America aren’t being grown anymore? Is this one of those things like they weren’t very good, like watermelons 200 years ago being mostly green inside with only a little red and then they were gradually bred for more fruit content?

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  • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Its only sort-of true.

    The tomato imported to Europe was more like the cherry/mini pear tomato and yellow in color. Cultivars like we know today we’re mostly developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in different European regions.

    Why do I say it’s mostly true.

    Modern breeders have extensively introgressed traits from wild types from Central and South America. Almost all modern cultivars contain DNA from multiple different locations. So it’s not really fair to say it’s all from Europe.

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    • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Thanks !

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  • fox@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    South America was doing some pretty crazy stuff with agriculture

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