Fruit, corresponding to the plant's ovary (or ovaries), protect seed development and serve as the vehicle for seed dispersal to different habitats for species propagation. Fruit also provide humans with a source of nutrition, culinary diversity, and often great pleasure. Humans consume fruit from a
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S. D. Tanksley (2004) studied this question.
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