UW Researchers Discover an Evolutionary Stepping Stone to Beet-Red Beets
University of Wisconsin–MadisonWriting this week (Oct. 9, 2017) in the journal New Phytologist, University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor of Botany Hiroshi Maeda and his colleagues describe an ancient loosening up of a key biochemical pathway that set the stage for the ancestors of beets to develop their characteristic red pigment.