Gene editing yields tomatoes that flower and ripen weeks earlier
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- Опубликовано: 4 дек 2016
- Using CRISPR to expand the geographical range of important food crops - Dec 2016
Using a simple and powerful genetic method to tweak genes native to two popular varieties of tomato plants, a team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) 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.
This means more plantings per growing season and thus higher yield. In this case, it also means that the plant can be grown in latitudes more northerly than currently possible - an important attribute as the earth’s climate warms.
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Wouldn't tomato lines, not dependent on pollen to set fruit, do all of what's mentioned in this video? I think my lines checks most of those boxes. :O) I'm going through your videos related to tomato as you likely know now. If not, I've got the magic gene needed in several lines. And, they're quite early too in my comparisons.
Where is it available for farming purposes ?
Is there any vanilla flavor and cocoa from the centuries come back?
Cool, but why that gene exists in the first place ? It can't be there for no reason, maybe this study lacks long term analysis of what could be the consequence of suppressing such gene
Good question. The plants with these modifications will no doubt be cultivated in a test environment to see what this altercation does in long term.
Personally I think it's related to energy conservation. Flowers do not yield energy like leaves and the plant needs to allocate its recourses to reproductive parts.
But in cultivation environments, energy is not as limited as in the wild
love it.
Careful with those genes, Eugene ! :-D
Slayy
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