date:Oct 29, 2015
scale up is feasible.
As tomatoes are a high yielding crop - producing up to 500 tonnes per hectare, and require few inputs, production of useful compounds such as Resveratrol or Genistein in tomatoes could work out to be more economical than developing artificial compounds in labs or deriving them in small quantities from usual plant sources such as grapes, soybeans, etc.
Dr Zhang said: Medicinal plants with high value are often difficult to grow and manage, and need very long cultivation ti