Far Eastern diners are partial to a variety of sweet, pink-skinned tomato. Dr. Asaph Aharoni of the Weizmann Institute’s Plant Sciences Department has now revealed the gene that’s responsible for producing these pink tomatoes. Aharoni’s research focuses on plants’ thin, protective outer layers, called cuticles, which are mainly composed of fatty, wax-like substances. In the [...]
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New genetic map will speed up plant breeding of the world’s most important medicinal crop
January 15th, 2010 
admin Plant scientists at the University of York have published the first genetic map of the medicinal herb Artemisia annua. The map is being used to accelerate plant breeding of Artemisia and rapidly develop the species into a high-yielding crop. This development is urgently needed to help meet escalating demand for effective malaria treatments. Though preventable [...]
