Post by @ombialik@mastodon.world

So it's not just Brassica and bananas we modified into something that didn't exist before us; it's also most citrus.
Lemons - hybrid.
Grapefruit - hybrid.
Lime - hybrid.
Sweet oranges - hybrid.
We made the food to suit our taste.
(And yes, I heard that in SNW and had to check it out)

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25447

#Fruit #Science #Hybridization

Genealogy of major citrus genotypes. The five progenitor species are shown at the top. Blue lines represent simple crosses between two parental genotypes, whereas red lines represent more complex processes involving multiple individuals, generations and/or backcrosses. Whereas type-1 mandarins are pure species, type-2 (early-admixture) mandarins contain a small amount of pummelo admixture that can be traced back to a common pummelo ancestor (with P1 or P2 haplotypes). Later, additional pummelo introgressions into type-2 mandarins gave rise to both type-3 (late-admixture) mandarins and sweet orange. Further breeding between sweet orange and mandarins or within late-admixture mandarins produced additional modern mandarins. Fruit images are not to scale and represent the most popular citrus types

Nature

Genomics of the origin and evolution of Citrus - Nature

The origin, evolution and domestication of Citrus and the genealogy of the most important wild and cultivated citrus varieties.

#hybridization #fruit #science

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Chip Butty

@otfrom@functional.cafe 2 hr. ago

@ombialik and almost every apple you eat will be a clone as the seeds don't come true as they are extremely heterozygous

M.S. Bellows, Jr.

@msbellows@c.im 10 min. ago

@otfrom @ombialik The American folk hero Johnny Appleseed had religious objections to grafting, so he only grew trees from seed (resulting in 99% bitter apples), and people bought them to make hard cider, not for eating or cooking.

Johnny Appleseed, the religious zealot who brought liquor to the frontier.

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