Bad seeds: How the parental lineage may determine viability in tomato hybrids

Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 16:21 in Biology & Nature

Hybrid seeds have dramatically boosted yield for industrial scale crops such as corn, alfalfa and wheat. But for backyard tomato growers, sometimes the fruits of their labor can lie fallow as interbreeding among species of wild tomatoes often yields unviable seeds.

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