date:Jan 03, 2020
ight spaces, such as converted storage containers. To make up for crop yield constrained by limited space, urban farms also operate year-round to produce crops that can be quickly harvested again and again.
In a paper recently published in Nature Biotechnology, Lippman and his colleagues detail how they introduced three distinct mutations into tomatoes to create these new types of plants.
Lippmans New York-based laboratory revealed in 2014 that fine-tuning the Self Pruning (SP) and SP5G genes