Gene editing yields tomatoes that flower and ripen weeks earlier

Posted by on December 5, 2016 3:32 pm
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Using a simple and powerful genetic method to tweak genes native to two popular varieties of tomato plants, a team has devised a rapid method to make them flower and produce ripe fruit more than 2 weeks faster than commercial breeders are currently able to do.

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