Scientists have now worked on our favourite tomato to sequence the genomes, which will help reduce costs and increase the vegetable's production worldwide.
Oh Those Luscious Tomatoes!
Ripe, red, homegrown tomatos are sumptuous. Currently researchers have figured out exactly what makes some of them delectable compared to the average supermarket tomato that’s so bland.
Ripe, red, homegrown tomatos are sumptuous. Currently researchers have figured out exactly what makes some of them delectable compared to the average supermarket tomato that’s so bland.
"This achievement is expected to lower costs and speed up efforts to improve the worldwide tomato production, making it better equipped to combat the pests, pathogens, drought and diseases that now plague growers," said M.K. Bhan, secretary, Department of Biotechnology.
The University of Delhi (South Campus), National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute and National Institute of Plant Genome Research (New Delhi) under the auspices of the Indian Initiative on Tomato Genome Sequencing participated in the TGC.
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"The sequences provide a detailed overview at the functional portions of the tomato genome, revealing the order, orientation, types and relative positions of their 35,000 genes," said National Institute of Plant Genome Research Director Akhilesh Kumar Tyagi, who contributed to the research.
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Indian researchers have simultaneously taken up analysis of specific genes/gene families related to ripening, nutrition, disease resistance and abiotic stress tolerance.
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The Indian initiative was funded by the Department of Biotechnology and supported by the Indian Council for Agricultural Research.
Source-IANS
