Gene editing yields tomatoes that flower and ripen weeks earlier

Monday, December 5, 2016 - 12:01 in Biology & Nature

Using a simple and powerful genetic method to tweak genes native to two popular varieties of tomato plants, a team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has devised a rapid method to make them flower and produce ripe fruit more than 2 weeks faster than commercial breeders are currently able to do.

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