This Week in Nature

May 31, 2012

Members of the Tomato Genome Consortium present in Nature this week genome sequences for the inbred tomato cultivar "Heinz 1706" and its closest wild relative, Solanum pimpinellifolium, each of which they compare to the potato genome.

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