Tomatoes come in a dazzling array of shapes, sizes, and colors, each with its own unique flavor profile. If you're new to gardening, choosing the right varieties can make all the difference. In this ...

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

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

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

Under the scorching sun, as the mercury rises, some tomato varieties keep on thriving. A team of biologists based at Brown ...

Like many other crops, modern tomato varieties are bred for size and yield rather than taste. As a result, there’s a big ...

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

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

Selection for bigger tomatoes has made the fruits less sweet, but now it has been shown that gene editing can make them sweeter without decreasing yields ...

Genetically editing sugar-regulating genes increases tomato sweetness, without affecting yield or size. The findings break a ...