The Fruit Odyssey: From the Forest to the Market

One of the motivation to conserve biodiversity is its future use by human society. In the future, we will be able to find potential medicines or food sources in the conserved wild plants and animals. This medicine may be the cure for cancer or this fruit may be the next sweet and juicy beloved snack.

If you go in your local supermarket, you will witness the general poor biodiversity of fruit on display. 10 or 20 different types of shiny fruits may already amaze you, however you need to know that the agricultural biodiversity is way richer than…