Comments on: Scientists at India’s NIPGR Create a Longer-Lasting Tomato (Studying The Regulation of Fruit Ripening)

By: Microrna

Microrna — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:40:03 +0000

These things are great. It will help eliminate hunger.

By: You say tomato! « Anastasia Bodnar

You say tomato! « Anastasia Bodnar — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:58:34 +0000

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By: Genetic Maize » You say tomato!

Genetic Maize » You say tomato! — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:53:20 +0000

By: You say tomato!

You say tomato! — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:33:36 +0000

By: James

James — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:25:48 +0000

The Flavr Savr did what it was supposed to do, but, at least from the perspective presented by Belinda Martineau in First Fruit which is just one person’s perspective on everything that went wrong, the business side of Calgene oversold the changes of the Flavr Savr tomato to themselves (for example deciding that tomatoes which kept longer on kitchen counters could ripen on the vine and then be treated like green tomatoes for purposes of harvesting and shipping) to their whole business model was based on a false set of assumptions about how how cheaply tomatoes could be grown and distributed. I can easily see that same mindset convincing them they didn’t need to worry about the conventional breeding of tomato varieties they were using.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:18:10 +0000

The Flavr Savr failed for non-GM reasons. I don’t remember all the details but there were dumb mistakes like putting the transgenic construct in a low-yielding, poor quality background.

I was also once told that a lab came close to commercializing a Botrytis-proof strawberry some years ago, which I think would be a blockbuster.

By: Science Report » Blog Archive » Nibbles: Sequencing, Agricultural origins, Mating systems, Tomato shelf-life, Beer vs Tea, Soy, Carrot, Seed processing, Screw-pine, Yams, Salicornia, Pollinators

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:43:51 +0000

[...] produce longer-lasting tomato. Which, however, still tastes like water. Those pesky biotechnologists are all over [...]

By: Nibbles: Sequencing, Agricultural origins, Mating systems, Tomato shelf-life, Beer vs Tea, Soy, Carrot, Seed processing, Screw-pine, Yams, Salicornia

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:39:29 +0000

[...] produce longer-lasting tomato. Which, however, still tastes like water. Those pesky biotechnologists are all over [...]

By: James

James — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:39:06 +0000

I would imagine it would depend on how fruits like the cashew apple go bad, and whether they follow the same ripening process as the tomato”Climacteric fruits” ones that give off a lot of the plant hormone ethylene and speed up their metabolism during ripening, though you may know more about the process than I do (I had to look up Climacteric when I read it in the paper).

But you’re right it seems likely if this technique pans out the number of tropical and exotic fruits in grocery stores would definitely go up even more, which I’m sure all the readers of this site can agree would be a great thing. (Friend from brazil has told me many times that I need to someday try a cashew apple.)

By: Party Cactus

Party Cactus — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:31:26 +0000

I wonder if sometime in the future this research could be applied to allowing fruits that go bad really fast, like cashew apple, mangosteen, or pawpaw, to last long enough to finally have a commercial market. Yeah, everything for tends to go back to ‘What can this do for fruit:),’ but working on post harvest traits for to prevent spoilage in developing countries is a much more noble goal. Although I can’t help but already hear critics (if this is ever implemented commercially in the US) complaining about this allowing those big nasty large corporate farms to ship their tomatoes more easily…or something like that. Irony would be when the horrible tomato being sold used was a GE Brandywine or Cherokee Chocolate taking advantage of this.