date:Jul 02, 2012
The UC Davis, a leading agriculture research university, finding has significant implications for the US tomato industry, which annually harvests more than 15 million tonnes 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 pl