Friday 31 July 2015

A Renaissance painting reveals how breeding changed watermelons

A Renaissance painting reveals how breeding changed watermelons

"It's fun to go to art museums and see the still-life pictures, and see what our vegetables looked like 500 years ago," James Nienhuis told me. In many cases, it's our only chance to peer into the past, since we can't preserve vegetables for hundreds of years.
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