News tagged with tomato plants
Genetic key discovered to dramatically increase yields and improve taste of hybrid tomato plants
Spectacularly increased yields and improved taste have been achieved with hybrid tomato plants by researchers at the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the Hebrew University and ...
Apr 06, 2010 |
4.5 / 5 (10) |
2
|
Single gene dramatically boosts yield, sweetness in tomato hybrids
Giving 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 a gene that pushes hybrid ...
Mar 28, 2010 |
3.9 / 5 (11) |
0
|
Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard
(AP) -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
Jul 03, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (7) |
2
I, robot -- and gardener: MIT droids tend plants
(AP) -- These gardeners would have green thumbs - if they had thumbs.
Apr 10, 2009 |
5 / 5 (5) |
4
Smart fungus disarms plant, animal and human immunity
Fungal 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 lungs, to infect their ...
Aug 20, 2010 |
5 / 5 (5) |
0
Robotic gardening: MIT course creates robot-tending tomatoes
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the middle of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) sits a platform of fake grass with tomato plants nestled in terra cotta pots, growing under the light of an ...
Mar 10, 2009 |
3.4 / 5 (7) |
3
New discoveries upend traditional thinking about how plants make certain compounds
Michigan 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, compounds that help give tomato ...
May 26, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
0
Advance in 'nano-agriculture': Tiny stuff has huge effect on plant growth
With potential adverse health and environmental effects often in the news about nanotechnology, scientists in Arkansas are reporting that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could have beneficial effects in agriculture.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 21, 2009 |
3.5 / 5 (4) |
2
Whitefly, tomato growers find truce in new Texas variety
The whitefly in Texas may be sending up a surrender flag to tomato processors in the state thanks to a Texas AgriLife Research scientist developing a new variety that resists the virus spread by this pesky ...
Dec 05, 2011 |
4.3 / 5 (3) |
0
The quality of the tomato depends more on temperature than on natural light
A team from the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development (Neiker-Tecnalia, Spain) has questioned the generally held belief that the quality of tomatoes depends primarily on their exposure to natural light ...
Mar 25, 2010 |
4 / 5 (3) |
0
Research finds molecular 'maturation clock' that modulates branching architecture in tomato plants
The secret to pushing tomato plants to produce more fruit might not lie in an extra dose of Miracle-Gro. Instead, new research from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) suggests that an increase in fruit yield ...
Dec 26, 2011 |
4 / 5 (2) |
2
|
Blossom end rot plummets in transgenic tomato
The brown tissue that signals blossom end rot in tomatoes is a major problem for large producers and home gardeners, but a Purdue University researcher has unknowingly had the answer to significantly lowering ...
May 21, 2012 |
4 / 5 (2) |
3
Tomato gene may fend banana against formidable fungus
(PhysOrg.com) -- Proteins from the fungus Cladosporium fulvum, which causes leaf blight in tomato plants, are very similar to the proteins of the fungus Mycosphaerella fijiensis, which causes the much-feared black Sigato ...
Apr 13, 2010 |
3 / 5 (2) |
0
Finding a way to extend tomato shelf-life
Tomatoes spend so much time on shelves and in refrigerators that an estimated 20 percent are lost to spoilage, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). But scientists with USDA's Agricultural Research Service ...
Feb 16, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Devising a 'silver bullet' for measuring water use by plants
(Phys.org) -- Most gardeners can tell by rule of thumb how much water their tomatoes and carrots need, but taking an accurate reading of plants' actual water use is a very difficult problem. Although ...
Apr 24, 2012 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
