Cold Spring Harbor Lab creates sweeter tomatoes
Photo credit: Newsday File / Adam Richins | Heirloom tomatoes (Aug. 2007)
The existence of a single tomato gene that boosts the bounty and sweetness of the fruit - hypothesized for decades - has been discovered by a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientist and an Israeli team.
"There are 24 chromosomes in every [tomato] cell and this gene is sitting on chromosome three," said plant geneticist Zachary Lippman, who collaborated with scientists at Hebrew University...
