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News Release 17-006
Scientists develop genetic path to tastier tomatoes
Consumers craving more flavorful tomatoes could get them
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Researchers subjected many tomato varieties to consumer panel evaluations.
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Scientist Harry Klee and his colleagues identified genes crucial to tomato flavor.
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Compounds associated with flavor are collected and analyzed in the lab using gas chromatography.
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Biologists have shown that chilling tomatoes reduces their flavor quality.
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Harry Klee in the midst of his research subjects: flowering tomato plants.
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The wild progenitor of the tomato, Solanum pimpinellifolium.
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