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A future of tasty tomatoes

Modern tomatoes have weaker flavor than older heirloom varieties, and consumers often complain about their "tastelessness". But, how did these tasteless tomatoes arise? - one cause is breeding. Tomatoes have been continuously bred to improve their agricultural features. While these features mostly include firmness for... click to read more

Denise Tieman | Professor at University of Florida, Horticultural Sciences Dept., Gainesville FL 32611

tomato flavor

breeding

genome sequencing

Reading time 3 min

published on Jan 14, 2020

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