The chemicals involved were proteins. To find out what role proteins played in the conversion process, the researchers engineered tomato plants to turn their production on and off, allowing them ...

Bigger, tastier tomatoes and eggplants could soon grace our dinner plates thanks to Johns Hopkins scientists who have ...

Scientists have identified genes that control tomato and eggplant size, paving the way for bigger, tastier, and more ...

Geminiviruses, which are single-stranded DNA viruses infecting a range of economically important crop species (e.g., cassava, maize, cotton and tomato) in tropical and subtropical regions ...

To identify key genes that confer resistance to broomrapes, the researchers performed a genome-wide association study using 152 tomato accessions and identified SlABCG45 as a crucial gene that ...