Fine-Tuning Tomato Genes to Capture Trapped Yield (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Fine-Tuning Tomato Genes to Capture Trapped Yield

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Using gene editing and cross-breeding to fine-tune and improve yield in domesticated tomato plants, a team at CSHL was able to grow a hybrid variety that branched weakly -- here providing two stems from which fruits can be set -- to provide about twice as many fruits. These are crosses of plum and cherry tomato varieties.

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Lippman lab, CSHL

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