date:Jul 02, 2012
that enable plants to photosynthesise, converting the energy of sunlight into sugars and other compounds that influence flavour and colour.
The researchers scoured a collection of mutant and wild species of tomatoes at UC Davis established at UC Davis by the late Professor Charles Rick beginning in the 1950s. They discovered that dark green tomatoes that naturally express GLK2 produced ripe fruit with increased levels of sugars or soluble solids, important for processing tomatoes, as well as h