Tomatoes are second only to potatoes as the world's most valuable vegetable crop. Eight years of work went into making the map, or genome. Three hundred scientists around the world took part in the ...

Sanwen Huang and colleagues report a comprehensive analysis of genetic variation in tomato based on the genome sequencing of 360 distinct accessions. The work provides insights into the history of ...

The Tomato Genome Consortium (TGC), a group of over 300 scientists from fourteen countries, has sequenced the genome of the cultivated tomato and its wild ancestor, Solanum pimpinellifolium. This ...

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The tomato, whose genome has just now been decoded, turns out to be one well-endowed vegetable, possessing 31,760 genes. This rich legacy, possibly a reflection of the disaster that killed off the ...

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For years scientists have slaved away, trying to piece together the genes that make up the ripe, red goodness that is the tomato. They have finally published the fleshy fruit's genome in full.

The pan-genome includes all of the genes from 725 different cultivated and closely related wild tomatoes. The research found that 4,873 genes were absent from the original reference genome.

The successful sequencing of the tomato genome will lead to tastier varieties within five years say scientists. They believe that the elusive flavour of home grown tomatoes will by then be widely ...

Tomato vs. potato. The genome is also important in learning why the tomato is so different from its genetic relatives in the nightshade family of flowering plants, ...