An emerging group of farmers and growers in Chile, known as seed guardians, aim to protect the traditional crops of their ...

There's something magical about nurturing a plant from seed to harvest and then enjoying the fresh, juicy fruits of your labor. Tomatoes come in a dazzling array of shapes, sizes, and colors, each ...

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

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

This year's trials from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society reaffirmed the importance of trialing a diverse range of ...

A team of horticulturists, bio-breeders and agriculture specialists affiliated with a host of institutions across China has ...

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

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

A genetic regulator of tomato sweetness has been identified through comparison of wild and domesticated varieties of the plant. Genetically engineering tomatoes to alter this gene increases sugar ...

Like gardenias, these plants grow best in acid soil, but unlike gardenias, camellias bloom in the winter to early spring. Including several varieties of camellias would create a lovely component ...