News articles tagged with 'tomato'
Gatekeeper for tomato pollination identified
— 4 Jan 2011 20:38 | BiologyTomato plants use similar biochemical mechanisms to reject pollen from their own flowers as well as pollen from foreign but related plant species, thus guarding against both inbreeding…
Smart fungus disarms plant, animal and human immunity
— 20 Aug 2010 10:18 | BiologyFungal and bacterial pathogens are well capable of infecting plants, animals and humans despite their immune systems. Fungi penetrate leafs, stalks and roots, or skin, intestines and…
Single gene dramatically boosts yield, sweetness in tomato hybrids
— 29 Mar 2010 07:21 | BiologyGiving tomato breeders and ketchup fans something to cheer about, a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientist and his colleagues at the Hebrew University in Israel have identified…
The quality of the tomato depends more on temperature than on natural light
— 26 Mar 2010 13:39 | BiologyA team from the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development (Neiker-Tecnalia) has questioned the generally held belief that the quality of tomatoes depends primarily…
The pink gene
— 21 Jan 2010 16:54 | BiologyFar Eastern diners are partial to a variety of sweet, pink-skinned tomato. Dr Asaph Aharoni of the Weizmann Institute's Plant Sciences Department has now revealed the gene that's responsible…
Genome of Phytophthora infestans decoded
— 9 Sep 2009 17:00 | BiologyA large international research team has decoded the genome of Phytophthora infestans, the notorious organism that triggered the Irish potato famine in the mid-19th century and also…
MSU discoveries upend traditional thinking about how plants make certain compounds
— 27 May 2009 11:20 | BiologyMichigan State University plant scientists have identified two new genes and two new enzymes in tomato plants; those findings led them to discover that the plants were making monoterpenes,…
New and improved tomato analyser
— 4 May 2009 18:51 | BiologyTomatoes come in a variety of sizes and shapes, making them the perfect subject to test shape-analysing software. The Tomato Analyzer is 'rapidly becoming the standard for fruit morphological…
How disease disables tomato plant's 'intruder alarm'
— 4 Dec 2008 22:42 | BiologyHow a bacterium overcomes a tomato plant's defences and causes disease, by sneakily disabling the plant's intruder detection systems, is revealed in new research out today (4 December)…
A big bunch of tomatoes?
— 18 Nov 2008 15:56 | BiologyWhy do poppies and sunflowers grow as a single flower per stalk while each stem of a tomato plant has several branches, each carrying flowers? In a new study, published in this week's…