Discovery
may lead to tomatoes with vintage taste
A new
discovery could make more tomatoes taste like heirlooms, reports an
international research team headed by a University of California, Davis, plant
scientist.
The
finding, which will be reported in the June 29 issue of the journal Science,
has significant implications for the U.S. tomato industry, which annually
harvests more than 15 million tons of the fruit for processing and fresh-market
sales.
“This
information about the gene responsible for the trait in wild and traditional
varieties provides a strategy to recapture quality characteristics that had
been unknowingly bred out of modern cultivated tomatoes,” said Ann Powell, a
biochemist in UC Davis’ Department of Plant Sciences and one of the lead
authors of the study.
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