Swiss Researchers Accelerate Tomato Fruiting by Repairing SSP2 Gene

Swiss researchers repaired a nucleotide in tomato SSP2, leading to earlier fruit set. The edited line gave about 8% more red fruit but ~11% lower sugar (Brix). Read more: getnews.me/swiss-researchers-accele... #tomatobreeding #geneediting

A rocking chair with a flat of seedlings on it

A dining room table with a sewing machine shoved back so a flat of seedlings can sit on it. Another flat of seedlings sits on the chair.

A computer desk, printer, and floor totally covered in flats of seedlings

Evening during hardening things off season.

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#Spring #TomatoBreeding #HotPeppers #NorthernBC #HardeningOff #PlantsAteMyLivingroom

#tomatobreeding #data

168 old seeds sown; goal: find dwarf, anthocynanin (atv) potato leaf.

2 weeks in, 71 germinated (+/-42%), 32 are anthocyanin (19%), 14 are potato leaf (8.3%).

3 anthocyanin potato leaf siblings (1.78%). 2 are indeterminate, and 1 seedling (0.59%) is a dwarf, antho PL!

A box, a dairy crate, and a sleeping orange cat on top of a bed. The box and dairy crate are full of hundreds of baby food jars, pill jars, tiny plastic bags, big paper envelopes, etc in a jumble with a different tomato variety name written on each one.

Protip: if you know you're gonna crash and have trouble moving much, go to bed with *mumble*hundred types of tomato seeds to sort and the best cat.

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#GardenPlanning

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Exploring 23 tomato accessions reveals significant diversity in agronomic and physico-chemical traits, advancing breeding programs.

#TomatoBreeding #GermplasmDiversity

Details: maxapress.com/article/doi/...