Hydrogen peroxide and the mystery of fruit ripening: 'Signal messengers' in plants
A research team led by Prof. Qin Guozheng from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has unveiled a ...
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Plant fruits and pollination
Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? This question makes me smile because they are both. The same can be said of cucumbers, ...
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Repairing a domestication mutation in tomato leads to an earlier yield
Genome editing with CRISPR-Cas is often associated with the induction of mutations. However, a team of researchers from the ...
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Tomato plants: the repair of the mutation leads to earlier fruit yield. (IMAGE)
Picture of a tomato plant with an unfavorable natural mutation (on the left) and a tomato plant in with the mutation was repaired by genome editing (on the right). The repair of the mutation leads to ...
Make A More Robust Tomato Sauce With Something You'd Usually Throw Away
Many people probably don't know that tomato leaves are even edible and tend just to throw them away, but they actually offer ...
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Cracking the Code of Fruit Ripening
A study uncovers how H2O2-induced redox modification regulates the RNA demethylase SlALKBH2. This modification stabilizes ...
This fruit grows on a native plant called Carolina horsenettle. But don't eat it.
You might just be content to snap a quick pic of this beautiful tidbit of winter color and then forward that photo to friends ...
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How To Grow Micro Tomatoes From Seeds Through The Winter Months
There's no need to wait for warm weather to have a fresh harvest of tomatoes. Micro tomatoes grow well indoors even during ...
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Picking your tomato seeds
After a lovely winter break, I returned to the office with a stack of seed catalogs begging me to order more seeds. Despite having hundreds of seed packets, I find ...