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Bringing the flavor back to modern tomatoes

While many people remember the wonderful flavor of a garden-grown heirloom tomato, this flavor is not found in modern commercial tomatoes. Modern tomato breeding has focused on disease resistance, yield, shelf-life and firmness for shipping. While these traits are essential for large scale year-round production... click to read more

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

genetic code

agriculture

genomics

genes expression

heirloom

Reading time 3 min

published on Dec 1, 2017

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