Plant evolution, breeding & biotech

Long Description: Plant breeding. Over thousands of years human selection of genetic changes in our crop plants have produced the productive and tasty foods that we enjoy today. Giant ears of corn and huge red tomatoes demonstrate how plant domestication and plant breeding has improved our crop plants to provide better food for humans.

Long Description: Millions of years of plant evolution produced wild plants that were adapted for their own survival, but not necessarily ideal as foods for humans. The tiny teosinte seed spike and wild tomato fruit show how difficult it would be for prehistoric people to get enough food by collection of wild plants.

Long Description: Plant biotech and plant breeding methods will work together to make future corn, tomato and other crops even better sources of food for humans.

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