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.