Rotten tomatoes no more: growing sweeter tomatoes is possible by editing just two of the fruit’s genes. Deleting the genes ...

Brown University biologists identified when tomatoes are most vulnerable to heat and how some varieties resist it.

Ouonkap noted that the scientists took some lessons from evolution to experiment with how best to speed up the adaptation ...

Pam Riddle's garden is home to two monsters — a 14-foot tomato plant and an 8-foot jalapeno pepper plant, both are straining the framework trellis to which they are tied. The two were even bigger ...

Today’s mass-produced tomatoes often grow to palm-sized proportions, but their naturally occurring ancestors were far smaller ...

Using CRISPR, the popular gene-editing tool, scientists bumped up the fruit’s sugar content by 30 percent without sacrificing ...

The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum ... the carbon that is produced through photosynthesis is incorporated into the plant, and in particular what tissues can act as sites of carbon accumulation ...

there are plenty of ways to grow delectable tomatoes without the need for a backyard. However, there are a few limitations you must keep in mind. Not all tomato varieties translate easily to limited ...

Using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool, the scientists knocked out these genes in domesticated tomato plants, resulting in ...