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Super-tomato shows what plant scientists can do
A better-tasting tomato highlights problems with Europe’s outdated approach to gene editing.
The world produces some 800 billion tomatoes each year — but how many of them are worth eating? Thousands of years of breeding have produced a fruit that often suits farmers and sellers more than consumers. Vines now grow in an orderly fashion, and produce lots of tomatoes that stay in place until they are harvested and are firm enough to be shipped long distances. But, in too many cases, studies have confirmed that flavour and nutrition have got lost somewhere along the way.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06915-y
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