An international team led by researchers has sequenced the genome of the almond tree and compared it to that of its closest relative, the peach tree. The most substantive differences between these ...

Almond trees are native to the mountains of Central Asia, and it was only by a spontaneous mutation around 4,000 years ago that the nuts – actually the almond tree’s seeds – were rendered edible in ...

The almond tree and the peach tree are two well-known species, since human beings have been eating their fruit (peach) or seed (almond) for thousands of years. Although at first sight the products of ...