Skipping a few thousand years: Rapid domestication of the groundcherry using gene editing
(PHYSorg.com Biology)

Shopping in your supermarket`s produce section is like strolling through a museum of humanity`s greatest inventions. Perfect ears of golden sweet corn; tomatoes of different sizes, shapes and colors; and spicy jalapeño peppers are all a testament to human ingenuity. You may not consider food an invention, but nearly all foods we eat are the product of thousands of years of constant breeding and selection.