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The inventors of the GMO blue tomato using snapdragon genes, Jonathan Jones and Cathie Martin of the John Innes Centre, founded a company called Norfolk Plant Sciences [37] to commercialize the blue tomato. They partnered with a company in Canada called New Energy Farms to grow a large crop of blue tomatoes, from which to create juice to test ...
Genetic engineering can have less impact on the expression of genomes or on protein and metabolite levels than conventional breeding or (non-directed) plant mutagenesis. [157] Toxicologists note that "conventional food is not risk-free; allergies occur with many known and even new conventional foods.
The plant pathogen causes a yellow leaf disorder in solanaceous crops including tomatoes. [1] ToCV is transmissible by whiteflies, phloem-limited and causes symptoms of interveinal chlorosis followed by necrosis in the tomato plants leaves resulting in a reduced fruit yield. [1] ToCV has a wide range of hosts such as pepper and potato. [4]
Tomato soup is a simple plant-forward dish usually made with tomatoes, broth, seasoning and sometimes cream. The recipe for tomato soup varies based on whether it’s canned or homemade, and every ...
Leggy tomato plants, or those that have grown tall and spindly, can be avoided if you take certain steps while growing them indoors. A Stroll Through the Garden: Tomatoes can get leggy in the ...
The tomato effect occurs when effective therapies for a condition are rejected because they do not make sense in the context of the current understanding or theory of the disease in question. [1] The name refers to the fact that tomatoes were rejected as a food source by most North Americans until the end of the 19th century, because the ...
The closer to ripe the tomato is, the more likely it is to still ripen with a crack. “Green tomatoes with cracks are more likely to go bad on the vine than more ripe tomatoes that crack ...
Leaves, stems, and green unripe fruit of the tomato plant also contain small amounts of the poisonous alkaloid tomatine, [36] although levels are generally too small to be dangerous. [36] [37] Ripe tomatoes do not contain any detectable tomatine. [36] Tomato plants can be toxic to dogs if they eat large amounts of the fruit or chew the plant ...