New Gene-Edited Tomatoes Can Now Be Grown In Grape-Like Bouquets
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New Gene-Edited Tomatoes Can Now Be Grown In Grape-Like Bouquets:
Tomatoes are a tough fruit to cultivate at times. Grown from long vines, they are not well suited for cramped spaces but thanks to a new gene-edited strain of tomatoes, the popular fruit can now be grown from a bush, making them much more amenable to urban farming.
Researchers have used CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing to create a new strain of tomatoes that grow from bushes rather than vines, taking the often difficult-to-cultivate fruit and making it much more amenable to urban farming.
In a newly-published study in the journal Nature Biotechnology, Zarchary[sic] Lippman -- a plant biologist at New York State's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- and his colleagues describe the process used to create the new strain.
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