date:Jul 02, 2012
igher levels of the health-promoting compound lycopene.
Nature presents numerous important genes and their variants, like uniform ripening, that breeders employ to facilitate the needs of growers, processors and consumers, said Jim Giovannoni, a USDA plant molecular biologist with the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University. Understanding the genes responsible for these characteristics facilitates the challenging process of breeding crops that meet the needs of all components of the food