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Oct. 20, 2020 — Biologists have discovered how tomato plants identify Cuscuta as a parasite. The plant has a protein in its cell walls that is identified as 'foreign' by a receptor in the ...
Mar. 1, 2022 — Researchers have discovered orf137, the gene underlying male sterility in a strain of tomato plant, CMS tomato. Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) -- where a plant is unable to make fertile pollen -- ...
May 23, 2022 — Tomatoes gene-edited to produce vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, could be a simple and sustainable innovation to address a global health ...
May 18, 2021 — Scientists have discovered genetic data that will help food crops like tomatoes and rice survive longer, more intense periods of drought on our warming ...
Dec. 9, 2020 — Scientists have produced a tomato enriched in the Parkinson's disease drug L-DOPA in what could become a new, affordable source of one of the world's essential ...
Dec. 1, 2020 — Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba demonstrated that Target-AID gene editing technology can be used to simultaneously introduce single-base changes into multiple genes in tomatoes. Using ...
Jan. 10, 2023 — In one of the few studies to directly investigate the mechanism underlying the effect of essential elements on plant disease resistance, scientists demonstrate that nutrient elements activate immune ...
Oct. 30, 2020 — In the driest state in the driest continent in the world, South Australian farmers are acutely aware of the impact of water shortages and drought. So, when it comes to irrigation, knowing which ...
Mar. 7, 2022 — Scientists helped discover a way to enhance tomato smell and taste. Scientists showed that five of the compounds are part of a biochemical pathway for synthesis of these important flavor ...
Oct. 22, 2020 — Novel grafted plants -- consisting of rootstock epigenetically modified to 'believe' it has been under stress -- joined to an unmodified scion, or above-ground shoot, give rise to progeny ...
