As the world faces political instability, increasingly frequent extreme weather events, and a rapidly growing population, ensuring a sustainable, global food supply chain is of critical importance.

By repairing the deleterious domestication mutation with genome editing, the Swiss researchers have obtained a tomato variety that is earlier yielding.

The researchers next genetically modified the genome of a variety of large tomato called Money Maker to disable the two genes they had identified.

The work has been published in Nature. CSHL researchers and colleagues around the globe have sequenced dozens of complete genomes for the plant genus that includes tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants.

Bigger, tastier tomatoes and eggplants could soon grace our dinner plates thanks to scientists who have discovered genes that control how large the fruits will grow. Bigger, tastier tomatoes and ...

Bigger, tastier tomatoes and eggplants could soon grace our dinner plates thanks to Johns Hopkins scientists who have discovered genes that control how large the fruits will grow. The research ...

It followed on the heels of genome-edited tomatoes with five times the amount of gamma-aminobutyric acid, a substance believed to reduce high blood pressure.