They are also an easy choice for novice gardeners, as they are self-pollinating. Tomato plants produce small yellow flowers before growing produce. Fertilized flowers develop into the red fleshy fruit ...

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.

Tomatoes are a critical source of nutrients and remain one of the most widely cultivated fruits globally. However, intensive greenhouse practices increase susceptibility to diseases, which can reduce ...

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 ...

Tomatoes are a critical source of nutrients and remain one of the most widely cultivated fruits globally. However, intensive ...