Sunday 4 September 2016

More tomatoes, faster: Accelerating tomato engineering


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More tomatoes, faster: Accelerating tomato engineering Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 01, 2016 - Tomatoes are already an ideal model species for plant research, but scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) just made them even more useful by cutting the time required to modify their genes by six weeks. While looking for ways to make tomatoes and other crop plants more productive, BTI Assistant Professor Joyce Van Eck and former postdoctoral scientist Sarika Gupta developed a be ... more

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