An emerging group of farmers and growers in Chile, known as seed guardians, aim to protect the traditional crops of their ...

Tomatoes come in a dazzling array of shapes, sizes, and colors, each with its own unique flavor profile. If you're new to gardening, choosing the right varieties can make all the difference. In this ...

Domesticated tomatoes grown industrially have been bred for high yields, resulting in varieties that are 10 to 100 times ...

Today’s mass-produced tomatoes often grow to palm-sized proportions, but their naturally occurring ancestors were far smaller ...

Brown University biologists identified when tomatoes are most vulnerable to heat and how some varieties resist it.

Under the scorching sun, as the mercury rises, some tomato varieties keep on thriving. A team of biologists based at Brown ...

Rao's also sells more varieties of jarred sauce than some shoppers realize. To find out which versions were best, I tried ...

Selection for bigger tomatoes has made the fruits less sweet, but now it has been shown that gene editing can make them sweeter without decreasing yields ...

Rotten tomatoes no more: growing sweeter tomatoes is possible by editing just two of the fruit’s genes. Deleting the genes ...

Beijing: Many people share a nostalgia for the rich, classic flavor of tomatoes from their childhood. This longing is largely ...

Genetically editing sugar-regulating genes increases tomato sweetness, without affecting yield or size. The findings break a ...